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Do you happen to know any good introductory texts to the renormalization group?
by contravariant 11y ago
Do you happen to know any good introductory texts to the renormalization group?
- selimthegrim 11y agoThe standard one in use at Santa Barbara is http://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Transitions-Renormalization-Frontiers-Physics/dp/0201554097 http://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Transitions-Renormalization-F... Some others I have sitting beside me at my desk right now are http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Critical-Phenomena-Introduction-Renormalization/dp/0198513933/ http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Critical-Phenomena-Introduction..., http://www.amazon.com/Renormalization-Introduction-Operator-Product-Monographs-Mathematical/dp/0521311772 http://www.amazon.com/Renormalization-Introduction-Operator-... and http://www.amazon.com/Renormalization-Methods-Guide-For-Beginners/dp/0199236526/ http://www.amazon.com/Renormalization-Methods-Guide-For-Begi... The most modern treatment is probably http://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Renormalization-Statistical-Physics-Cambridge/dp/0521499593 http://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Renormalization-Statistical-Ph... (For God's sake, stay away from anything written by Zinn-Justin, Itzykson, or Zuber unless you know what you're doing)