Equivalence of local potential approximations

Mar, 2005
7 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 07 (2005) 027
e-Print:
Report number:
  • SHEP-0509

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Abstract:
In recent papers it has been noted that the local potential approximation of the Legendre and Wilson-Polchinski flow equations give, within numerical error, identical results for a range of exponents and Wilson-Fisher fixed points in three dimensions, providing a certain ``optimised'' cutoff is used for the Legendre flow equation. Here we point out that this is a consequence of an exact map between the two equations, which is nothing other than the exact reduction of the functional map that exists between the two exact renormalization groups. We note also that the optimised cutoff does not allow a derivative expansion beyond second order.
  • field theory: scalar
  • field theory: Euclidean
  • symmetry: O(N)
  • effective action
  • renormalization group
  • expansion: derivative
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