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The Renormalisation Group Equation As An Equation For Lie Transport Of Amplitudes

Brian P. Dolan

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9307024

Abstract

It is shown that the renormalisation group (RG) equation can be viewed as an equation for Lie transport of physical amplitudes along the integral curves generated by the β-functions of a quantum field theory. The anomalous dimensions arise from Lie transport of basis vectors on the space of couplings. The RG equation can be interpreted as relating a particular diffeomorphism of flat space-(time), that of dilations, to a diffeomorphism on the space of couplings generated by the vector field associated with the β-functions.

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