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Flow equations and wavelet truncations

Tracie Michlin, Fatih Bulut, Wayne Nicholas Polyzou

Published Oct 27, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate both theoretical and computational aspects of using wavelet bases to decouple physics on different scales in quantum field theory.

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