Wednesday, 2 May 2018

quantum field theory - Wilsonian Renormalization Group and Symmetries of the EFT


I have am action S0 valid up to energy scale Λ0 with renormalisable terms.


I want to study the EFT at a lower scale ΛΛ0, by using the Wilsonian RG. It will give me an effective action SΛ with an infinite number of terms, renormalisable and not.


In which terms is this "Effective Action" different from the general effective action I can write down just by adding terms preserving the symmetry of the starting action ?


[edit:] and in particular


1) are terms generated by RG flow ALL the ones possible respecting the symmetry of the action S0, or just a subset of all the (theoretically) symmetry-respecting terms? Can WRG "miss" some terms?


2) A part from anomalies, can one get a Wilsonian effective action SΛ with a different (enhanced or reduced) symmetry wrt the starting S0 ?


With respect to these questions:


3) How is the Coleman-Weinberg potential understood in the Wilsonian RG flow ?





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