Renormalizing the renormalization group pathologies

Physics Report

Volumn 348, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 5-31

  Bricmont, J ^a   Kupiainen, A ^b   Lefevere, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gibbs states; Lattice spin systems; Phase transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008853445     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-1573(00)00134-4     Document Type: Review

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