The Yang—Mills gradient flow and lattice effective action

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTW097zbMATH Open1361.81074arXiv1510.08208OpenAlexW3106028767MaRDI QIDQ5347178FDOQ5347178

Ryo Yamamura

Publication date: 22 May 2017

Published in: PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, the Yang-Mills gradient flow is found to be a useful concept not only in lattice simulations but also in continuous field theories. Since its smearing property is similar to the Wilsoninan "block spin transformation", there might be deeper connection between them. In this work, we define the "effective action" which generates configurations at a finite flow time and derive the exact differential equation to investigate the flow time dependence of the action. Then Yang-Mills gradient flow can be regarded as the flow of the effective action. We also propose the flow time dependent gradient, where the differential equation becomes similar to the renormalization group equation. We discuss a possibility to regard the time evolution of the effective action as the Wilsonian renormalization group flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08208

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Cited In (4)

• A consistent measure for lattice Yang–Mills
• Effective action and phase transitions in Yang-Mills theory on spheres
• Stochastic renormalization group and gradient flow
• Proof of the renormalizability of the gradient flow

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