Renormalization group flow and parallel transport with non-metric compatible connections
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
A family of connections on the space of couplings for a renormalizable field theory is defined. The connections are obtained from a Levi-Civita connection, for a metric which is a generalisation of the Zamolodchikov metric in two dimensions, by adding a family of tensors which are solutions of the renormalization group equation for the operator product expansion co-efficients. The connections are torsion free, but not metric compatible in general. The renormalization group flows of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions and the O(N)-model in three dimensions, in the large limit, are analysed in terms of parallel transport under these connections.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9904119,
title = {Renormalization group flow and parallel transport with non-metric compatible connections},
author = {Brian P. Dolan and Alex Lewis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9904119},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, Latex