Coarse-Graining as a Route to Microscopic Physics: The Renormalization Group in Quantum Field Theory.

The renormalization group (RG) has been characterized as merely a coarse-graining procedure that does not illuminate the microscopic content of quantum field theory (QFT) but merely gets us from that content, as given by axiomatic QFT, to macroscopic predictions. I argue that in the constructive fie...

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Publicado en:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 82; no. 5; pp. 1211 - 1224
Autor principal:	Li, Bihui
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Cambridge University Press Dec2015
Materias:	Microscopy Renormalization (Physics) Quantum field theory Physical measurements Philosophy of physics
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