The spin-S Blume-Capel RG flow diagram

Using the finite-size scaling renormalization group, we obtain the two-dimensional flow diagram of the Blume-Capel model forS=1 andS=3/2. In the first case our results are similar to those of mean-field theory, which predicts the existence of first- and second-order transitions with a tricritical point. In the second case, however, our results are different. While we obtain in theS=1 case a phase diagram presenting a multicritical point, the mean-field approach predicts only a second-order transition and a critical endpoint.     

Lattice and continuum wavelets and the block renormalization group

We obtain a resolution of the identity operator, for functions on a latticeZ ^d, which is derived from the block renormalization group. We use eigenfunctions of the terms of the decomposition to form a basis forl ₂(Z^d) and show how the basis is generated from lattice wavelets. The lattice spacing is taken to zero and continuum wavelets are obtained.     

Borel summability of the perturbation series in a hierarchical λ(▽φ)4 model

We prove Borel summability of the perturbation series for the dielectric constant and the free energy density for the hierarchical ()⁴ lattice model. Our methods are based on nonperturbative renormalization group analysis of the model.On leave from the Department of Mathematical Methods of Physics, Warsaw University, Poland.Supported in part by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany.     

Position-space renormalization for systems with weak long-range interactions and the breakdown of hyperscaling

Exact renormalization group equations are derived for a position-space renormalization of spin systems with weak long-range forces. It is shown how an apparent dependence of the critical exponents on the choice of the renormalization group can be resolved via the mechanism of dangerous irrelevant variables and that this same mechanism is responsible for the breakdown of hyperscaling. The dimensiond=4 can be seen to be a borderline dimension above which classical critical exponents are expected.     

Existence and asymptotic properties of solutions for a nonlinear Schrödinger elliptic equation from geophysical fluid flows

In this paper, we study the existence and asymptotic behavior of radial solutions for a class of nonlinear Schrödinger elliptic equations on infinite domains describing the gyre of geophysical fluid flows. The existence theorem and asymptotic properties of radial positive solutions are established by using a new renormalization technique.     

Hopf-algebraic renormalization of QED in the linear covariant gauge

In the context of massless quantum electrodynamics (QED) with a linear covariant gauge fixing, the connection between the counterterm and the Hopf-algebraic approach to renormalization is examined. The coproduct formula of Green’s functions contains two invariant charges, which give rise to different renormalization group functions. All formulas are tested by explicit computations to third loop order. The possibility of a finite electron self-energy by fixing a generalized linear covariant gauge is discussed. An analysis of subdivergences leads to the conclusion that such a gauge only exists in quenched QED.     

An exact,finite, gauge-invariant,non-perturbative approach to QCD renormalization

A particular choice of renormalization, within the simplifications provided by the non-perturbative property of Effective Locality, leads to a completely finite, non-perturbative approach to renormalized QCD, in which all correlation functions can, in principle, be defined and calculated. In this Model of renormalization, only the Bundle chain-Graphs of the cluster expansion are non-zero. All Bundle graphs connecting to closed quark loops of whatever complexity, and attached to a single quark line, provided no ‘self-energy’ to that quark line, and hence no effective renormalization. However, the exchange of momentum between one quark line and another, involves only the cluster-expansion’s chain graphs, and yields a set of contributions which can be summed and provide a finite color-charge renormalization that can be incorporated into all other QCD processes. An application to High Energy elastic pp scattering is now underway.     

Neural spike renormalization. Part I — Universal number 1

For a class of circuit models for neurons, it has been shown that the transmembrane electrical potentials in spike bursts have an inverse correlation with the intra-cellular energy conversion: the fewer spikes per burst the more energetic each spike is. Here we demonstrate that as the per-spike energy goes down to zero, a universal constant to the bifurcation of spike-bursts emerges in a similar way as Feigenbaum's constant does to the period-doubling bifurcation to chaos generation, and the new universal constant is the first natural number 1.     

Infinite Volume Limit for the Dipole Gas

We consider a classical lattice dipole gas with low activity and show that the pressure has a limit as the volume goes to infinity. The result is obtained by a renormalization group analysis of the model.     

BRS Cohomology and the Chern Character in Noncommutative Geometry

We briefly report on new results concerning a perturbation expansion structure within the framework of an analytic version of perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD). This approach combines the RG symmetry with the Källén–Lehmann analyticity in the Q² variable. The procedure of analytization matches this analyticity with the RG invariance by adding to the analytized invariant coupling some nonperturbative contributions containing no adjustable parameters. In turn, the new perturbative expansion (the APT expansion) for an observable represents asymptotic expansion over a nonpower set of specific functions rather than in powers of . We analyze this set and show that it obeys different properties in various ranges of the Q² variable. In the UV, it is close to the power set used in the pQCD calculation. However, generally, this set is of a more complicated nature. In the low Q² region the behavior of is oscillating. Here, the APT expansion has a feature of asymptotic expansion à la Erdélyi. The issue of the consistency of an analytization procedure with the RG structure of observables is also discussed.