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In this chapter we will identify the Fermi liquid as a fixed point of the renormalization group where the transformation is generated by systematically eliminating the high energy modes of the system and keeping only the modes close to the Fermi surface.
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(1995). Effective Actions and the Renormalization Group. In: Quantum Electron Liquids and High-T c Superconductivity. Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs, vol 38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47678-8_2
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