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Towards a Nonperturbative Renormalization Group Analysis

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We prove that a certain class of convex gradient models in high dimensional spaces without the presence of a small parameter renormalizes to a free field. As a consequence we establish a certain asymptotic formula for the partition function. In some ways, this is a realization of Gawedzki and Kupiainen’s idea to use correlation inequalities to augment the rigorous renormalization group methods. We use the more particular suggestion of Spencer to use certain inequalities of Brascamp and Lieb and also the formulation of the correlation functions in terms of the solutions to some partial differential equations given by Helffer and Sjöstrand.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Haru Pinson

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Communicated by A. Kupiainen

The author is partially supported by the NSF grant DMS0301830.

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Pinson, H. Towards a Nonperturbative Renormalization Group Analysis. Commun. Math. Phys. 282, 11–54 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-008-0531-4

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