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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 303 2 a Solution by
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A momentum-shell renormalization group transformation consists of three steps. First split into slow modes with and fast modes with , and integrate out to obtain a Wilsonian effective action for . Next rescale momenta by , equivalently coordinates by , to restore the cutoff to . Finally rescale the field to restore the chosen normalization of the gradient term. Repeating these operations produces a renormalization-group flow of every permitted mass and coupling.
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