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Constructive Theory of Critical Phenomena

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The purpose of these lectures is to introduce some nonperturbative renormalization group (RG) methods for the study of certain problems of statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. Our aim is a nonperturbative construction of asymtotically free quantum field theories and non-gaussian critical points.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Technical Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo 15, Finland

    Antti Kupiainen

  2. CNRS, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France

    K. Gawedzki

  3. Department of Mathematical Methods of Physics, Warsaw University, Poland

    K. Gawedzki

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  1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    G. ’t Hooft

  2. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    A. Jaffe

  3. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    H. Lehmann

  4. University of Paris VI, Paris, France

    P. K. Mitter

  5. University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    I. M. Singer

  6. Laboratory of Particle Physics, Annecy, France

    R. Stora

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Kupiainen, A., Gawedzki, K. (1984). Constructive Theory of Critical Phenomena. In: ’t Hooft, G., Jaffe, A., Lehmann, H., Mitter, P.K., Singer, I.M., Stora, R. (eds) Progress in Gauge Field Theory. NATO ASI Series, vol 115. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0280-4_14

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