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Renormalization group analysis of a simple hierarchical fermion model

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A simple hierarchical fermion model is constructed which gives rise to an exact renormalization transformation in a 2-dimensional, parameter space. The behaviour of this transformation is studied. It has two hyperbolic fixed points for which the existence of aglobal critical line is proven. The asymptotic behaviour of the transformation is used to prove the existence of the thermodynamic limit in a certain domain in parameter space. Also the existence of a continuum limit for these theories is investigated using informatioin about the asymptotic renomralization behaviour. It turns out that the “trivial” fixed point gives rise to a twoparameter family of continuum limits corresponding to that part of parameter space where the renormalization trajectories originate at this fixed point. Although the model is not very realistic it serves as a simple example of the application of the renormalization group to proving the existence of the thermodynamic limit and the continuum limit of lattice models. Moreover, it illustrates possible complications that can arise in global renormalization group behaviour, and that might also be present in other models where no global analysis of the renormalization transformation has yet been achieved.

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    Present address: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University College Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, UK

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  1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Groningen, The Netherlands

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Communicated by K. Gawedzki

A part of the material here presented was used in the author's thesis

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Dorlas, T.C. Renormalization group analysis of a simple hierarchical fermion model. Commun.Math. Phys. 136, 169–194 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096796

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