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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 NN limit, are analysed in terms of parallel transport under these connections.

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@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}
}

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7 pages, Latex