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We discuss some higher-loop studies of renormalization-group flows and fixed points in various quantum field theories.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-05 Robert Shrock

We derive the Wilson-Polchinski RG equation in the planar limit. We explain that the equation necessarily involves also non-planar amplitudes with sphere topology, which represent multi-trace contributions to the effective action. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Becchi , S. Giusto , C. Imbimbo

We investigate a $Z_2$-symmetric scalar field theory in two dimensions using the Polchinski exact renormalization group equation expanded to second order in the derivative expansion. We find preliminary evidence that the Polchinski equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri Kubyshin , Rui Neves , Robertus Potting

We study the convergence of entropically regularized optimal transport to optimal transport. The main result is concerned with the convergence of the associated optimizers and takes the form of a large deviations principle quantifying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Espen Bernton , Promit Ghosal , Marcel Nutz

The exact renormalisation group equation is studied for a two-dimensional theory with exponential interaction and a background charge at infinity. The motivation for studying this interaction is the flow between unitary minimal models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Lars Kjaergaard

We construct a novel Wetterich-type functional renormalization group equation for gravity which encodes the gravitational degrees of freedom in terms of gauge-invariant fluctuation fields. Applying a linear-geometric approximation the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-30 Maximilian Demmel , Frank Saueressig , Omar Zanusso

We develop a theory of optimal transport relative to a distinguished subset, which acts as a reservoir of mass, allowing us to compare measures of different total variation. This relative transportation problem has an optimal solution and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Peter Bubenik , Alex Elchesen

Replacing positivity constraints by an entropy barrier is popular to approximate solutions of linear programs. In the special case of the optimal transport problem, this technique dates back to the early work of Schr\"odinger. This approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Guillaume Carlier , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer

In this paper, we use the exact renormalisation in the context of tensor models and tensorial group field theories. As a byproduct, we rederive Gaussian universality for random tensors and provide a general power counting for Abelian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Thomas Krajewski , Reiko Toriumi

The renormalization group method has been adapted to the analysis of the long-time behavior of non-linear partial differential equation and has demonstrated its power in the study of critical phenomena of gravitational collapse. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Osamu Iguchi , Akio Hosoya , Tatsuhiko Koike

In this letter we study renormalization group (RG) flows between 2d conformal field theories enjoying extended higher-spin $\mathcal{W}$-symmetry. We propose a new class of RG flows between the diagonal minimal models of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Federico Ambrosino , Tomáš Procházka

Renormalisation group (RG) methods provide one of the most important techniques for analysing the physics of many-body systems, both analytically and numerically. By iterating an RG map, which "course-grains" the description of a many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 James D. Watson , Emilio Onorati , Toby S. Cubitt

Estimating Wasserstein distances between two high-dimensional densities suffers from the curse of dimensionality: one needs an exponential (wrt dimension) number of samples to ensure that the distance between two empirical measures is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-13 François-Pierre Paty , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Marco Cuturi

Within the Functional Renormalisation Group (FRG) approach, we present a fluid-dynamical approach to solving flow equations for models living in a multi-dimensional field space. To this end, the underlying exact flow equation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-23 Niklas Zorbach , Adrian Koenigstein , Jens Braun

The so-called renormalization group (RG) method is applied to derive kinetic and transport equations from the respective microscopic equations. The derived equations include Boltzmann equation in classical mechanics, Fokker-Planck equation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Hatta , T. Kunihiro

We consider regularised quadratic optimal transport with subquadratic polynomial or entropic regularisation. In both cases, we prove interior Lipschitz-estimates on a transport-like map and interior gradient Lipschitz-estimates on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Rishabh S. Gvalani , Lukas Koch

We discuss the different forms of the functional RG equation and their relation to each other. In particular we suggest a generalized background field version that is close in spirit to the Polchinski equation as an alternative to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 S. P. de Alwis

We propose a family of relaxations of the optimal transport problem which regularize the problem by introducing an additional minimization step over a small region around one of the underlying transporting measures. The type of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Saied Mahdian , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn

We derive renormalised finite functional flow equations for quantum field theories in real and imaginary time that incorporate scale transformations of the renormalisation conditions, hence implementing a flowing renormalisation. The flows…

We review the use of the exact renormalization group for realization of symmetry in renormalizable field theories. The review consists of three parts. In part I (sects. 2,3,4), we start with the perturbative construction of a renormalizable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Yuji Igarashi , Katsumi Itoh , Hidenori Sonoda