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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 81, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08803-0
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- European Research Council [ERC-AdG-290623]
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The geometric formulation of Wilson's exact renormalisation group is based on a gauge invariant ultraviolet regularisation scheme without the need for a background field. By introducing Pauli-Villars determinants in the path integral measure and requiring quasi-locality under a change in the cutoff scale, an exact renormalisation group flow equation for the Wilsonian effective action is derived without fixing the gauge. This approach allows for the calculation of key quantities such as the one-loop beta function in Yang-Mills and the one-loop divergencies of General Relativity.
A geometric formulation of Wilson's exact renormalisation group is presented based on a gauge invariant ultraviolet regularisation scheme without the introduction of a background field. This allows for a manifestly background independent approach to quantum gravity and gauge theories in the continuum. The regularisation is a geometric variant of Slavnov's scheme consisting of a modified action, which suppresses high momentum modes, supplemented by Pauli-Villars determinants in the path integral measure. An exact renormalisation group flow equation for the Wilsonian effective action is derived by requiring that the path integral is invariant under a change in the cutoff scale while preserving quasi-locality. The renormalisation group flow is defined directly on the space of gauge invariant actions without the need to fix the gauge. We show that the one-loop beta function in Yang-Mills and the one-loop divergencies of General Relativity can be calculated without fixing the gauge. As a first non-perturbative application we find the form of the Yang-Mills beta function within a simple truncation of the Wilsonian effective action.
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