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Pure CFTs have vanishing β-function at any value of the coupling. One example of a pure CFT is the O(N) Wess-Zumino model in 2+1 dimensions in the large N limit. This model can be analytically solved at finite temperature for any value of the coupling, and we find that its entropy density at strong coupling is exactly equal to \( \frac{31}{35} \) of the non-interacting Stefan-Boltzmann result. We show that a large class of theories with equal numbers of N-component fermions and bosons, supersymmetric or not, for a large class of interactions, exhibit the same universal ratio. For unequal numbers of fermions and bosons we find that the strong-weak thermodynamic ratio is bounded to lie in between \( \frac{4}{5} \) and 1.
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DeWolfe, O., Romatschke, P. Strong coupling universality at large N for pure CFT thermodynamics in 2+1 dimensions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 272 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2019)272
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