Beyond RG: from parameter flow to metric flow

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العنوان: Beyond RG: from parameter flow to metric flow
المؤلفون: Strandkvist, Charlotte, Chvykov, Pavel, Tikhonov, Mikhail
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
الوصف: Complex systems with many degrees of freedom are typically intractable, but some of their behaviors may admit simpler effective descriptions. The question of when such effective descriptions are possible remains open. The paradigmatic approach where such "emergent simplicity" can be understood in detail is the renormalization group (RG). Here, we show that for general systems, without the self-similarity symmetry required by the RG construction, the RG flow of model parameters is replaced by a more general flow of the Fisher Information Metric on the model manifold. We demonstrate that the systems traditionally studied with RG comprise special cases where this metric flow can be induced by a parameter flow, keeping the global geometry of the model-manifold fixed. In general, however, the geometry may deform, and metric flow cannot be reduced to a parameter flow -- though this could be achieved at the cost of augmenting the manifold by one new parameter, as we discuss. We hope that our framework can clarify how ideas from RG may apply in a broader class of complex systems.
Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, *These authors contributed equally to the work
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12420
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2011.12420
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv