Renormalization group and normal form theory
Archishman Raju, Colin B. Clement, Lorien X. Hayden, Jaron Kent-Dobias, Danilo B. Liarte, D. Zeb Rocklin, James P. Sethna
Abstract
The results of the renormalization group are commonly advertised as the existence of power law singularities near critical points. Logarithmic and exponential corrections are seen as special cases and dealt with on a case-by-case basis. We propose to systematize the analysis of singularities in the renormalization group using perturbative normal form theory. Classification of all such singularities in this unified framework generates a systematic machinery to perform scaling collapses. We show that this procedure leads to a better handling of the singularity even in the classic case of the 4-d Ising model.