All Questions
8 questions
54
votes
4
answers
9k
views
Why is Quantum Field Theory so topological?
I understand that my question suffers from my lack of knowledge about the field, but as a mathematician without much knowledge of physics I have been wondering much about the following and I always ...
35
votes
5
answers
11k
views
What mathematical treatment is there on the renormalization group flow in a space of Lagrangians?
What mathematical treatment is there on the renormalization group flow in a space of Lagrangians?
- 921
11
votes
2
answers
913
views
How do you know that you have succeeded-Constructive Quantum Field Theory and Lagrangian
Quantum Field Theory is a branch of mathematical physics which is begging for a better understanding.
In fact there are no rigorous constructions of interacting QFT in four dimensions. By a rigorous
...
- 9,330
8
votes
3
answers
2k
views
References request: constructive quantum field theory
I am taking a course this semester on QFT, which deals much with constructive quantum field theory. Some of its topics so far involve relationships between non-Gaussian probability measures,Feynman ...
- 663
7
votes
0
answers
497
views
Extreme unitary minimal models of conformal field theory
Some of the best understood conformal field theories are the 2D unitary minimal models $\mathcal{M}(m+1,m)$ indexed by the integer $m\ge 2$ and with central charge
$$
c=1-\frac{6}{m(m+1)}\ .
$$
I ...
6
votes
1
answer
999
views
A set of questions on continuous Gaussian Free Fields (GFF)
As I said in my previous posts, I'm trying to teach myself some rigorous statistical mechanics/statistical field theory and I'm primarily interested in $\varphi^{4}$, but I know that the absense of ...
- 3,515
6
votes
1
answer
707
views
Reformulation - Construction of thermodynamic limit for GFF
I've posted a question about the thermodynamic limit for Gaussian Free Fields (GFF) a couple days ago and I haven't got any answers yet but I kept thinking about it and I thought it would be better to ...
- 3,515
6
votes
0
answers
163
views
Wick ordering, probability vs physics
Consider a collection of creation $a^\dagger$and annihilation operators $a$. In physics one defines Wick ordering (also known as normal ordering) as a prescription to place all creation operators ...
- 721