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Fifty years of Wilsonian renormalization and counting

Statistical Mechanics 2024-09-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Renormalization began as a tool to eliminate divergences in quantum electrodynamics but it is now the basis of our understanding of physics at different energy scales. I review its evolution with an eye towards physics beyond the Wilsonian paradigm.

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@article{arxiv.2309.02484,
  title  = {Fifty years of Wilsonian renormalization and counting},
  author = {Philip W. Phillips},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.02484},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Invited Review to appear in Nature Physics on the 50th anniversary of Wilson's RG