RENORMALIZATION GROUP IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVE ACTION: A REVIEW

DOI10.1142/S0217751X99000750MaRDI QIDQ4261867zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, Matt Visser, Juan Pérez-Mercader

Publication date 5 October 1999

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9809198

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

Abstract: The existence of fluctuations together with interactions leads to scale-dependence in the couplings of quantum field theories for the case of quantum fluctuations, and in the couplings of stochastic systems when the fluctuations are of thermal or statistical nature. In both cases the effects of these fluctuations can be accounted for by solutions of the corresponding renormalization group equations. We show how the renormalization group equations are intimately connected with the effective action: given the effective action we can extract the renormalization group equations; given the renormalization group equations the effects of these fluctuations can be included in the classical action by using what is known as improved perturbation theory (wherein the bare parameters appearing in tree-level expressions are replaced by their scale-dependent running forms). The improved action can then be used to reconstruct the effective action, up to finite renormalizations, and gradient terms.

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• Broken Symmetries
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