A holographic form for Wilson's RG
An attempt is made to make precise the connection between Wilson's RG and “Holographic RG” by writing Wilson's RG in a holographic form. A functional formulation is given for the exact RG evolution of a scalar field in d (flat) dimensions. It is shown that a change of variables maps the ac...
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description | An attempt is made to make precise the connection between Wilson's RG and “Holographic RG” by writing Wilson's RG in a holographic form. A functional formulation is given for the exact RG evolution of a scalar field in d (flat) dimensions. It is shown that a change of variables maps the action to that for a scalar field in AdSd+1. This provides a holographic form for Wilson's RG that can be called “Holographic RG”. This mapping can only be done for a specific form of the cutoff function in the Exact Renormalization Group formalism. The notion of scale and conformal invariance in the presence of a finite UV cutoff is emphasized. The discussion is primarily about the two-point function and the Gaussian fixed point. Some remarks are made about nontrivial fixed points. |
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spelling | doaj.art-2733b4cd1dc14108bb669b2a1033e5232022-12-22T03:23:01ZengElsevierNuclear Physics B0550-32131873-15622017-11-01924C60364210.1016/j.nuclphysb.2017.09.018A holographic form for Wilson's RGB. Sathiapalan0H. Sonoda1Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Tharamani, Chennai 600113, IndiaPhysics Department, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, JapanAn attempt is made to make precise the connection between Wilson's RG and “Holographic RG” by writing Wilson's RG in a holographic form. A functional formulation is given for the exact RG evolution of a scalar field in d (flat) dimensions. It is shown that a change of variables maps the action to that for a scalar field in AdSd+1. This provides a holographic form for Wilson's RG that can be called “Holographic RG”. This mapping can only be done for a specific form of the cutoff function in the Exact Renormalization Group formalism. The notion of scale and conformal invariance in the presence of a finite UV cutoff is emphasized. The discussion is primarily about the two-point function and the Gaussian fixed point. Some remarks are made about nontrivial fixed points.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321317303139 |
spellingShingle | B. Sathiapalan H. Sonoda A holographic form for Wilson's RG Nuclear Physics B |
title | A holographic form for Wilson's RG |
title_full | A holographic form for Wilson's RG |
title_fullStr | A holographic form for Wilson's RG |
title_full_unstemmed | A holographic form for Wilson's RG |
title_short | A holographic form for Wilson's RG |
title_sort | holographic form for wilson s rg |
url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321317303139 |
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