Let's Study (Renormalization)

Index

1. Tutorials
2. Species of the RG
3. History
4. Philosophy
5. Fun Applications

1. Tutorials

Let's start off with papers that go easy on the math. 

• Butterfield & Bouatta, Renormalization for Philosophers
• Batterman, Universality and RG Explanations
• Wilson, Problems in Physics with Many Scales of Length 
• Williams, RG methods
• Alexandre, Concepts of Renormalization in Physics
• Batterman, The Devil in the Details (see chapter 4)
• Teller, Infinite Renormalization

Crank the difficulty up: 

• Manohar, Intro to EFT
• Neubert, Renormalization and EFT
• Creswick, Farach, and Poole, Intro to Renorm Group Methods
• Fisher, Renormalization Group Theory in Statistical Physics
• Lepage, What is Renormalization? 
• Delamotte, A Hint of Renormalization
• Tong, Statistical Field Theory (RG is 3rd chapter)
• Polchinski, Renormalization and Effective Lagrangians

Okay, let's dive in now. Here are full texts: 

• McComb, Renormalization Methods: A Guide for Beginners
• Wilson & Kogut, Renormalization Group and the ε Expansion
• Cardy, Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics
• Goldenfeld, Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group
• Collins, Renormalization
• Hollowood, Renormalization Group and Fixed Points
• Costello, Renormalization and Effective Field Theory
• Cohen, As Scales Become Separated: EFT lectures
• Pascual & Tarrach, QCD: Renormalization for the Practioner
• Rivasseau, From Perturbative to Constructive Renormalization
• Jakovác and Patkós, Resummation and Renormalization in Effective Theories of Particle Physics

Math heavy:

• Feldman, Fermionic Functional Integrals and the Renormalization Group
• Brunetti, Duetsch, and Fredenhagen, Perturbative AQFT and the RG
• Langlands, The renormalization fixed point as a mathematical object

2.  Species of the RG

Wilsonian RG:

• Wilson, Nobel Lecture
• Many authors, Ken Wilson Memorial Volume
• Lorenz, Florian, & Schütz, Intro to the Functional RG (chapter 3)
• Schwartz, Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model (chapter 23)
• Zee, QFT in a Nutshell (part 3)

Gell-Mann-Low:

• Gell-Mann & Low, QED at Small Distances (this is THE paper)

Stückelberg-Petermann RG:

• Duetsch, Connection between the renormalization groups of Stückelberg-Petermann and Wilson

Weinberg's RG:

• Weinberg, New Approach to the RG

Nonperturbative RG:

• Delamotte, An Introduction to the Nonperturbative RG

Similarity RG:

• Szpigel & Perry, The Similarity Renormalization Group

Exact RG:

• Rosten, Fundamentals of the Exact RG (much of this is also due to Wilson)
• Bervillier, The Wilson-Polchinski exact renormalization group equation

Functional RG

• Kopietz, Bartosch, and Schütz, Intro to the Functional RG

Quenched Disorder RG:

• Aharony & Narovlansky, The renormalization group flow in field theories with quenched disorder

3. History

• Huang, A Critical History of Renormalization 
• Brown, Renormalization: From Lorentz to Landau (and beyond) 
• Miller, Early Quantum Electrodynamics
• Shirkov, The Bogoliubov Renormalization Group

4. Philosophy

• Rivat, Renormalization Scrutinized 
• Franklin, Whence the Effectiveness of EFTS? 
• Ruetsche, Renormalization Group Realism
• Williams, Scientific Realism Made Effective
• Fraser, Renormalization and the Formulation of Scientific Realism
• Hartmann, Effective Field Theories, Reductionism and Scientific Explanation
• Egg, Lam, & Oldofredi, Particles, Cutoffs and Inequivalent Representations. Fraser andWallace on Quantum Field Theory (review of Wallace and Fraser CQFT/AQFT debate)
• Conference Videos: QFT Foundations

5. Fun Applications

Gravity:

• Donoghue, Quantum gravity as a low energy effective field theory
• Donoghue, Introduction to the Effective Field Theory Description of Gravity
• Burgess, Quantum Gravity in Everyday Life

Nuclear Physics: 

• van Kolck, Effective Field Theories for Nuclear and (some) Atomic Physics
• van Kolck, Recent Developments in Nuclear EFT
• Furnstahl & Hebeler, New applications of renormalization group methods in nuclear physics
• Conference: tower of the effective field theories and the emergence of the nuclear phenomena

Neuroscience: 

• Bialek et al., Coarse--graining and hints of scaling in a population of 1000+ neurons
• Nicoletti et al., Testing the critical brain hypothesis using a phenomelogical renormalization group

Genetics:

• Stephens et al., Coarse graining in genetic dynamics

Birth-Death Processes:

• Peliti, Path integral approach to birth-death processes on a lattice (it's amazing that this exists!) 

Differential Equations

• Kirkinis, The Renormalization Group: A Perturbation Method for the Graduate Curriculum

Ecology:

• I'm waiting....

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