C. Itoi et H. Mukaida, Renormalization group for renormalization-group equations toward the universality classification of infinite-order phase transitions, PHYS REV E, 60(4), 1999, pp. 3688-3700
We derive a renormalization group to calculate the nontrivial critical expo
nent of the divergent correlation length, thereby providing a universality
classification of essential singularities in infinite-order phase transitio
ns. This method thus resolves the vanishing scaling matrix problem. The exp
onent is obtained from the maximal eigenvalue of a scaling matrix in this r
enormalization group, as in the case of ordinary second-order phase transit
ions. We exhibit several nontrivial universality classes in infinite-order
transitions different from the well known Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless t
ransition. [S1063-651X(99)05010-2].