Renormalization group flow, entropy and eigenvalues

DOI10.1007/S11005-017-0987-2MaRDI QIDQ1683797zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dan Li

Publication date 1 December 2017

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01843

zbMATH Keywords

AdS/CFT correspondencerenormalization group flowvariation of eigenvaluesthermal entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: The irreversibility of the renormalization group flow is conjectured to be closely related to the concept of entropy. In this paper, the variation of eigenvalues of the Laplacian in the Polyakov action under the renormalization group flow will be studied. Based on the one-loop approximation to the effective field theory, we will use the heat kernel method and zeta function regularization. In even dimensions, the variation of eigenvalues is given by the top heat kernel coefficient, and the conformal anomaly is relevant. In odd dimensions, we will conjecture a formula for the variation of eigenvalues through the holographic renormalization in the setting of geometric AdS/CFT correspondence.

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