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Flowing in Group Field Theory Space: a Review

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-07-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We provide a non-technical overview of recent extensions of renormalization methods and techniques to Group Field Theories (GFTs), a class of combinatorially non-local quantum field theories which generalize matrix models to dimension d3d \geq 3. More precisely, we focus on GFTs with so-called closure constraint, which are closely related to lattice gauge theories and quantum gravity spin foam models. With the help of recent tensor model tools, a rich landscape of renormalizable theories has been unravelled. We review our current understanding of their renormalization group flows, at both perturbative and non-perturbative levels.

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@article{arxiv.1603.01902,
  title  = {Flowing in Group Field Theory Space: a Review},
  author = {Sylvain Carrozza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01902},
  year   = {2016}
}