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Spontaneous symmetry breaking with Wilson renormalization group

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the conditions under which a symmetry is spontaneously broken in the Wilson renormalization group formulation. Both for a global and local symmetry, the result is that in perturbation theory one has to perform a fine tuning of the boundary conditions for the flow of the relevant couplings. We consider in detail the discrete Z2Z_2 case and the Abelian Higgs model.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9507098,
  title  = {Spontaneous symmetry breaking with Wilson renormalization group},
  author = {M. Bonini and M. D'Attanasio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9507098},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

19 pages, latex, no figures

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