Renormalization-group flows as gradient flows in coupling-constant space forD-dimensional systems
- 15 July 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 40 (2) , 535-539
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.40.535
Abstract
Under certain conditions we argue about the existence of a renormalization scheme in which the renormalization-group flow, defined by the function of the theory, is expressed as a gradient flow in the neighborhood of a (fixed) point in theory space.
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