Introduction to the Functional RG and Applications to Gauge Theories

From MaRDI portal
Publication:2913104

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-27320-9_6zbMATH Open1257.81058arXivhep-ph/0611146OpenAlexW3121396141MaRDI QIDQ2913104FDOQ2913104

Holger Gies

Publication date: 26 September 2012

Published in: Renormalization Group and Effective Field Theory Approaches to Many-Body Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: These lectures contain an introduction to modern renormalization group (RG) methods as well as functional RG approaches to gauge theories. In the first lecture, the functional renormalization group is introduced with a focus on the flow equation for the effective average action. The second lecture is devoted to a discussion of flow equations and symmetries in general, and flow equations and gauge symmetries in particular. The third lecture deals with the flow equation in the background formalism which is particularly convenient for analytical computations of truncated flows. The fourth lecture concentrates on the transition from microscopic to macroscopic degrees of freedom; even though this is discussed here in the language and the context of QCD, the developed formalism is much more general and will be useful also for other systems.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0611146






Cited In (71)


Recommendations





This page was built for publication: Introduction to the Functional RG and Applications to Gauge Theories

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2913104)