Introduction to the Functional Renormalization Group

This book, based on a graduate course given by the authors, is a pedagogic and self-contained introduction to the renormalization group with special emphasis on the functional renormalization group. The functional renormalization group is a modern formulation of the Wilsonian renormalization group i...

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Main Authors: Kopietz, Peter. (Author), Bartosch, Lorenz. (Author), Sch<U+00fc>tz, Florian. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Series:Lecture Notes in Physics, 798
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