Internal space renormalization group for the Luttinger model

Abstract

The absence of fermionic, asymptotical one-particle states in the Luttinger model raises the suspicion that the interactions are actually strong at the vicinity of the Fermi points. The functional internal space renormalization group method, a systematical scheme for the computation of effective coupling strengths off the Fermi points, is applied to shed some light on this issue. A simple truncation of the evolution equation shows that the theory is indeed strongly coupled at the Fermi points for arbitrarily small value of the bare coupling constant and the removal of the cutoff is blocked by Landau poles. A peculiar feature of the normal ordering scheme is pointed out to explain the absence of these effects in the bosonized solution.