Nonlinear aspects of the renormalization group flows of Dyson's hierarchical model

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/23/R01zbMATH Open1118.81055arXivhep-th/0701191OpenAlexW3121840100MaRDI QIDQ5292541FDOQ5292541

Authors: Y. Meurice 

Publication date: 21 June 2007

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review recent results concerning the renormalization group (RG) transformation of Dyson's hierarchical model (HM). This model can be seen as an approximation of a scalar field theory on a lattice. We introduce the HM and show that its large group of symmetry simplifies drastically the blockspinning procedure. Several equivalent forms of the recursion formula are presented with unified notations. Rigorous and numerical results concerning the recursion formula are summarized. It is pointed out that the recursion formula of the HM is inequivalent to both Wilson's approximate recursion formula and Polchinski's equation in the local potential approximation (despite the very small difference with the exponents of the latter). We draw a comparison between the RG of the HM and other RG equations in the local potential approximation. The construction of the linear and nonlinear scaling variables is discussed in an operational way. We describe the calculation of non-universal critical amplitudes in terms of the scaling variables of two fixed points. This question appears as a problem of interpolation between these fixed points. Universal amplitude ratios are calculated. We discuss the large-N limit and the complex singularities of the critical potential calculable in this limit. The interpolation between the HM and more conventional lattice models is presented as a symmetry breaking problem. We briefly introduce models with an approximate supersymmetry. One important goal of this review article is to present a configuration space counterpart, suitable for lattice formulations, of other RG equations formulated in momentum space (sometimes abbreviated as ERGE).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0701191

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupsupersymmetryDyson's hierarchical modelsymmetry breaking problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Exactly solvable dynamic models in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C23) Dynamic renormalization group methods applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C28)

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