The c and a-Theorems and the Local Renormalisation Group
The Zamolodchikov c-theorem has led to important new insights in the understanding of the Renormalisation Group (RG) and the geometry of the space of QFTs. The present primer introduces and reviews the parallel developments of the search for a highe
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Graham Shore
The c and a-Theorems and the Local Renormalisation Group
SpringerBriefs in Physics Editorial Board Egor Babaev, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts, USA Malcolm Bremer, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Xavier Calmet, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Francesca Di Lodovico, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Pablo D. Esquinazi, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Maarten Hoogerland, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Eric Le Ru, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn, New Zealand Hans-Joachim Lewerenz, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA James Overduin, Towson University, Towson, USA Vesselin Petkov, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Stefan Theisen, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphys, Golm, Germany Charles H.-T. Wang, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Andrew Whitaker, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK
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Graham Shore
The c and a-Theorems and the Local Renormalisation Group
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Graham Shore Department of Physics Swansea University Swansea, United Kingdom
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Contents
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Introduction .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Scale, Conformal and Weyl Invariance . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .
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