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arxiv: hep-th/9904119 · v1 · submitted 1999-04-16 · ✦ hep-th

Renormalization group flow and parallel transport with non-metric compatible connections

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keywords connectionsdimensionsgroupmetricrenormalizationcompatiblefamilyparallel
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A family of connections on the space of couplings for a renormalizable field theory is defined. The connections are obtained from a Levi-Civita connection, for a metric which is a generalisation of the Zamolodchikov metric in two dimensions, by adding a family of tensors which are solutions of the renormalization group equation for the operator product expansion co-efficients. The connections are torsion free, but not metric compatible in general. The renormalization group flows of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions and the O(N)-model in three dimensions, in the large $N$ limit, are analysed in terms of parallel transport under these connections.

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