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The Renormalisation Group (RG) is a systematic procedure used to regularise divergences appearing as artefacts when constructing solutions to a large class of differential problems, whether perturbatively or not. This paper is devoted to…
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We study the renormalization group flow of the Euclidean Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine and Freidel-Krasnov (EPRL-FK) spin foam model in the large-$j$-limit. The vertex amplitude is deformed to include a cosmological constant term. The state…
This paper is the fifth in a series devoted to the development of a rigorous renormalisation group method applicable to lattice field theories containing boson and/or fermion fields, and comprises the core of the method. In the…
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