Comment on ``On the Renormalization of Conductance in Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid''

Abstract

Recently Kawabata found that the conductance in Tomonaga-Luttinger (TL) liquids should not be renormalized if one incorporates the renormalization of applied fields correctly. This claim is generalized to include the interactions which carry the large momentum transfer. We thus find that Kawabata's conclusion holds generally for the class of TL liquids. A key observation is that such irrelevant interactions merely renormalize the velocity and the TL parameter at the massless TL fixed point.