Exact results and open questions in first principle functional RG

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2009.10.010MaRDI QIDQ847074zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre Le Doussal

Publication date 12 February 2010

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1192

zbMATH Keywords

Burgers equationglassesrenormalization groupdisordered systemsturbulencepinning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: Some aspects of the functional RG (FRG) approach to pinned elastic manifolds (of internal dimension $d$) at finite temperature $T>0$ are reviewed and reexamined in this much expanded version of [Europhys. Lett. {�f 76} 457 (2006)]. The particle limit $d=0$ provides a test for the theory: there the FRG is equivalent to the decaying Burgers equation, with viscosity $usimT$ - both being formally irrelevant. Analogy between Kolmogorov scaling and FRG cumulant scaling is discussed. Next we prove that the FRG function $R(u)$ and higher cumulants defined from the field theory can be obtained {it for any $d$} from moments of a renormalized potential defined in an sliding harmonic well. This allows to measure the fixed point function $R(u)$ in numerics and experiments. In $d=0$ the beta function (of the inviscid limit) is obtained from first principles to four loop. For Sinai model (uncorrelated Burgers initial velocities) the ERG hierarchy can be solved and the exact function $R(u)$ is obtained. Connections to exact solutions for the statistics of shocks in Burgers and to ballistic aggregation is detailed. A relation is established between the size distribution of shocks and the one for droplets. A droplet solution to the ERG functional hierarchy is found for any $d$, and the form of $R(u)$ in the thermal boundary layer is related to droplet probabilities. These being known for the $d=0$ Sinai model the function $R(u)$ is obtained there at any $T$. Consistency of the $epsilon=4-d$ expansion in one and two loop FRG is studied from first principles, and connected to shock and droplet relations which could be tested in numerics.

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