14–18 Jul 2015
Kobe International Conference Center
Asia/Tokyo timezone

The Wilson flow in scalar field theory

18 Jul 2015, 10:40
20m
402 (Kobe International Conference Center)

402

Kobe International Conference Center

6-9-1 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0046, Japan
Talk Theoretical Developments Theoretical Developments

Speaker

Ms Susanne Ehret (University of Edinburgh)

Description

A nonperturbative renormalization prescription for the energy-momentum tensor, based on space-time symmetries along the Wilson flow, has been proposed recently in the context of four-dimensional gauge theories. We extend this construction to the case of a scalar field theory, and investigate its numerical feasibility by studying Ward identities in 3-dimensional phi^4 theory. In this talk, we introduce the Wilson flow for the scalar theory, discuss its renormalization properties, and present some preliminary results about the determination of the renormalization constants for the energy-momentum tensor.

Primary authors

Dr Antonio Rago (Plymouth University) Mr Francesco Capponi (Plymouth University) Prof. Luigi Del Debbio (University of Edinburgh) Dr Roberto Pellegrini (The University of Edinburgh) Ms Susanne Ehret (University of Edinburgh)

Presentation materials