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Renormalization Group Flows as Gradient Flows in Coupling Constant Space for $D$ -dimensional Systems

Dec, 1988

11 pages

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Phys.Rev.D 40 (1989) 535

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.40.535

Report number:

OX-TH-107/88,
US-FT-2/89

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Under certain conditions we argue about the existence of a renormalization scheme in which the renormalization-group flow, defined by the β function of the theory, is expressed as a gradient flow in the neighborhood of a (fixed) point in theory space.

FIELD THEORY: CRITICAL PHENOMENA
FIELD THEORY: ANY-DIMENSIONAL
RENORMALIZATION GROUP
COUPLING CONSTANT

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