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We construct a gravity dual for scale invariant but non-conformal field theories with a cyclic renormalization group flow. A slight modification of our construction gives a gravity dual of discretely scale invariant field theories. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-02-07 Yu Nakayama

Field theories in the presence of branes encounter localized divergences that renormalize brane couplings. The sources of these brane-localized divergences are understood as arising either from broken translation invariance, or from short…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Walter D. Goldberger , Mark B. Wise

We discuss from a geometric point of view the connection between the renormalization group flow for non--linear sigma models and the Ricci flow. This offers new perspectives in providing a geometrical landscape for 2D quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-21 Mauro Carfora

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

In a companion paper arXiv:2510.27676, we introduced a non-perturbative classical renormalisation group (RG) flow equation as a novel method for treating strongly interacting problems in general relativity, with a prominent application to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 F. Gutiérrez , K. Falls , A. Codello

We demonstrate the irreversibility of a wide class of world-sheet renormalization group (RG) flows to first order in $\alpha'$ in string theory. Our techniques draw on the mathematics of Ricci flows, adapted to asymptotically flat target…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 T Oliynyk , V Suneeta , E Woolgar

The functional renormalization group flow of a scalar field theory with quartic couplings and a sharp spatial momentum cutoff is presented in four-dimensional Minkowski space-time for the bare action by retaining the entanglement of the IR…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 S. Nagy , J. Polonyi

We revisit optimization of functional renormalization group flows by analyzing regularized loop integrals. This leads us to a principle, the Principle of Strongest Singularity, and a corresponding order relation which allows to order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-17 Niklas Zorbach , Jonas Stoll , Jens Braun

We study higher derivative extension of the functional renormalization group (FRG). We consider FRG equations for a scalar field that consist of terms with higher functional derivatives of the effective action and arbitrary cutoff…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-15 Gota Tanaka , Asato Tsuchiya

Scale separation is an important physical principle that has previously enabled algorithmic advances such as multigrid solvers. Previous work on normalizing flows has been able to utilize scale separation in the context of scalar field…

We study response of liquid to a scale transformation, which generates a change of the liquid density, and obtain a set of differential equations for correlation functions. The set of equations, which we call density renormalization group…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-26 Satoshi Iso , Kiyoharu Kawana

It is shown how to construct renormalization group flows of quantum field theories in real space, as opposed to the usual Wilsonian approach in momentum space. This is achieved by generalizing the multiscale entanglement renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-23 Jutho Haegeman , Tobias J. Osborne , Henri Verschelde , Frank Verstraete

We interpret the physical $B$-field renormalization group flow in the language of Courant algebroids, clarifying the sense in which this flow is the natural "Ricci flow" for generalized geometry. Next we show that the $B$-field…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-21 Jeffrey Streets

The RG-2 flow is the two-loop approximation for the world-sheet non-linear sigma model renormalization group flow. The first truncation of the flow is the well known Ricci flow, at two loops higher order curvature terms appear, changing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-12 Oscar Lasso Andino

A renormalization group flow of Hamiltonians for two-dimensional classical partition functions is constructed using tensor networks. Similar to tensor network renormalization ([G. Evenbly and G. Vidal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 180405 (2015)],…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-29 Matthias Bal , Michaël Mariën , Jutho Haegeman , Frank Verstraete

Based only on simple principles of renormalization in coordinate space, we derive closed renormalized amplitudes and renormalization group constants at 1- and 2-loop orders for scalar field theories in general backgrounds. This is achieved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Comellas , P. E. Haagensen , J. I. Latorre

The gradient flow in non-abelian gauge theories on R^4 is defined by a local diffusion equation that evolves the gauge field as a function of the flow time in a gauge-covariant manner. Similarly to the case of the Langevin equation, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-18 Martin Lüscher , Peter Weisz

We propose a direct correspondence between the classical evolution equations of 5-d supergravity and the renormalization group (RG) equations of the dual 4-d large $N$ gauge theory. Using standard Hamilton-Jacobi theory, we derive first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. de Boer , E. Verlinde , H. Verlinde

We analyze the Ising model on a random surface with a boundary magnetic field using matrix model techniques. We are able to exactly calculate the disk amplitude, boundary magnetization and bulk magnetization in the presence of a boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean Carroll , Miguel Ortiz , Washington Taylor

The renormalization group flow in two--dimensional field theories that are coupled to gravity is discussed at the example of the sine-Gordon model. In order to derive the phase diagram in agreement with the matrix model results, it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Christof Schmidhuber