On the Renormalization Group Explanation of Universality.
It is commonly claimed that the universality of critical phenomena is explained through particular applications of the renormalization group (RG). This article has three aims: to clarify the structure of the explanation of universality, to discuss the physics of such RG explanations, and to examine...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 85; no. 2; pp. 225 - 249 |
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Apr2018
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