Pathology-Free Real-Space Renormalization Group Theory on an Inverse Limit Space

Abstract

It has been over fifty years since Kenneth Wilson had his Nobel-prize-winning ideas on the renormalization group. In this time frame, despite many attempts, no mathematical results have implemented Wilson's vision to a satisfactory degree. Although a number of predictions stemming from the renormalization group framework have been proven to date, these proofs usually rely on alternative ideas and do not cover the full predictive power of Wilson's renormalization group. The discovery of pathologies within rigorous implementations of renormalization group transformations have further reduced the enthusiasm of the mathematics community for this subject. This paper presents a novel framework to implement Wilson's original idea in a rigorous manner based on inverse limits of finite systems. Doing so, one avoids these pathologies and hence obtains a mathematically sound framework for Wilson's renormalization group. This opens up a completely new path to tackle some of the existing problems in rigorous renormalization group theory like the existence of non-trivial fixed points.