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The gradient flow is the evolution of fields and physical quantities along a dimensionful parameter~$t$, the flow time. We give a simple argument that relates this gradient flow and the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) flow. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-09 Hiroki Makino , Okuto Morikawa , Hiroshi Suzuki

We study two-dimensional spherical defects in d-dimensional Conformal Field Theories. We argue that the Renormalization Group (RG) flows on such defects admit the existence of a decreasing entropy function. At the fixed points of the flow,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Tom Shachar , Ritam Sinha , Michael Smolkin

We discuss a two-point particle irreducible (2PPI) approach to many-body physics which relies on a renormalization group (RG) flow equation for the associated effective action. In particular, the general structure and properties of this RG…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Sandra Kemler , Jens Braun

In nonperturbative formulation of quantum field theory (QFT), the vacuum state is characterized by the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) flow of Feynman type field correlators. Such a flow is a parametric family of ultraviolet (UV)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Andras Laszlo , Zsigmond Tarcsay

In this work, conditional entropy is used to quantify the information loss induced by passing a continuous random variable through a memoryless nonlinear input-output system. We derive an expression for the information loss depending on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Bernhard C. Geiger , Christian Feldbauer , Gernot Kubin

Implementing the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) transformation in a nonperturbative way, we construct an effective holographic dual description with an emergent extradimension identified with an RG scale. Taking the large$-N$ limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-09 Ki-Seok Kim , Mitsuhiro Nishida , Yoonseok Choun

Free-running Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), especially probabilistic models, generate an ongoing information flux that can be quantified with the mutual information $I\left[\vec{x}(t),\vec{x}(t\!+\!1)\right]$ between subsequent system…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-18 Claus Metzner , Marius E. Yamakou , Dennis Voelkl , Achim Schilling , Patrick Krauss

Randomly connected tensor networks (RCTN) are the dynamical systems defined by summing over all the possible networks of tensors. Because of the absence of fixed lattice structure, RCTN is not expected to have renormalization procedures. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 Naoki Sasakura

Random graphs offer a useful mathematical representation of a variety of real world complex networks. Exponential random graphs, for example, are particularly suited towards generating random graphs constrained to have specified statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-09 Alessio Catanzaro , Diego Garlaschelli , Subodh P. Patil

The $n$-index R\'enyi mutual information and transfer entropy for the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model with arbitrary single-spin dynamics in the thermodynamic limit are derived as functions of thermodynamic quantities. By means of Monte…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-22 Zhehui Deng , Jinshan Wu , Wenan Guo

We have studied quantum data compression for finite quantum systems where the site density matrices are not independent, i.e., the density matrix cannot be given as direct product of site density matrices and the von Neumann entropy is not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Ö. Legeza , J. Sólyom

We study a class of renormalization group flows on line defects that can be described by a generalized free field with ordered planar contractions on the line. They are realized, for example, in large $N$ gauge theories with matter in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-18 Ivri Nagar , Amit Sever , De-liang Zhong

Modern techniques of the renormalization group (RG) combined with effective field theory (EFT) methods are revolutionizing nuclear many-body physics. In these lectures we will explore the motivation for RG in low-energy nuclear systems and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 R. J. Furnstahl

The interactions between three or more random variables are often nontrivial, poorly understood, and yet, are paramount for future advances in fields such as network information theory, neuroscience, genetics and many others. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Fernando Rosas , Vasilis Ntranos , Christopher J. Ellison , Sofie Pollin , Marian Verhelst

These lectures contain an introduction to modern renormalization group (RG) methods as well as functional RG approaches to gauge theories. In the first lecture, the functional renormalization group is introduced with a focus on the flow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Holger Gies

Renormalization is an essential technique in field-theoretic descriptions of natural phenomena, where the absence of a UV-complete description yields an abundance of divergent quantities. While the renormalization prescription has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Brenden Bowen , Albert Farah , Spasen Chaykov , Nishant Agarwal

We show that renormalization group (RG) theory applied to complex networks are useful to classify network topologies into universality classes in the space of configurations. The RG flow readily identifies a small-world/fractal transition…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-01-30 Hernán D. Rozenfeld , Chaoming Song , Hernán A. Makse

We use the functional renormalization group equation for quantum gravity to construct a non-perturbative flow equation for modified gravity theories of the form $S = \int d^dx \sqrt{g} f(R)$. Based on this equation we show that certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pedro F. Machado , Frank Saueressig

A recently proposed renormalization group technique, based on the hierarchical structures present in theories with fluctuating geometry, is implemented in the model of branched polymers. The renormalization group equations can be solved…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Jan Ambjorn , Piotr Bialas , Jerzy Jurkiewicz

We study holographic c-theorems based on timelike entanglement entropy and show that a timelike c-function captures irreversible renormalization group (RG) flow. We demonstrate that timelike c-functions are applicable to both relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Dimitrios Giataganas