The "exact" or "functional" renormalization group equation describes the renormalization group flow of the effective average action Gamma(k). The ordinary effective action Gamma(0) can be obtained by integrating the flow equation from an ultraviolet scale k = Lambda downto k = 0. We give several examples of such calculations at one-loop, both in renormalizable and in effective field theories. We reproduce the four-point scattering amplitude in the case of a real scalar field theory with quartic potential and in the case of the pion chiral Lagrangian. In the case of gauge theories, we reproduce the vacuum polarization of QED and of Yang-Mills theory. We also compute the two-point functions for scalars and gravitons in the effective field theory of scalar fields minimally coupled to gravity.

Computing the effective action with the functional renormalization group

Codello A;
2016-01-01

Abstract

The "exact" or "functional" renormalization group equation describes the renormalization group flow of the effective average action Gamma(k). The ordinary effective action Gamma(0) can be obtained by integrating the flow equation from an ultraviolet scale k = Lambda downto k = 0. We give several examples of such calculations at one-loop, both in renormalizable and in effective field theories. We reproduce the four-point scattering amplitude in the case of a real scalar field theory with quartic potential and in the case of the pion chiral Lagrangian. In the case of gauge theories, we reproduce the vacuum polarization of QED and of Yang-Mills theory. We also compute the two-point functions for scalars and gravitons in the effective field theory of scalar fields minimally coupled to gravity.
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