Wilsonian renormalisation of CFT correlation functions: field theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)139zbMATH Open1380.81342arXiv1702.07773OpenAlexW2593810147MaRDI QIDQ683264FDOQ683264

Javier M. Lizana, Manuel Pérez-Victoria

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine the precise connection between the exact renormalisation group with local couplings and the renormalisation of correlation functions of composite operators in scale-invariant theories. A geometric description of theory space allows us to select convenient non-linear parametrisations that serve different purposes. First, we identify normal parameters in which the renormalisation group flows take their simplest form; normal correlators are defined by functional differentiation with respect to these parameters. The renormalised correlation functions are given by the continuum limit of correlators associated to a cutoff-dependent parametrisation, which can be related to the renormalisation group flows. The necessary linear and non-linear counterterms in any arbitrary parametrisation arise in a natural way from a change of coordinates. We show that, in a class of minimal subtraction schemes, the renormalised correlators are exactly equal to normal correlators evaluated at a finite cutoff. To illustrate the formalism and the main results, we compare standard diagrammatic calculations in a scalar free-field theory with the structure of the perturbative solutions to the Polchinski equation close to the Gaussian fixed point.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07773

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryrenormalization grouprenormalization regularization and renormalons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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