Wednesday, 2 May 2018

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


I have am action $S_0$ valid up to energy scale $\Lambda_0$ with renormalisable terms.


I want to study the EFT at a lower scale $\Lambda \ll \Lambda_0$, by using the Wilsonian RG. It will give me an effective action $S^\Lambda$ 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 $S_0$, 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 $S^\Lambda$ with a different (enhanced or reduced) symmetry wrt the starting $S_0$ ?


With respect to these questions:


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





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