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Wilsonian renormalisation group and thermal field theory in the Schwinger-Keldysh closed-time-path formalism (2501.16441v2)

Published 27 Jan 2025 in hep-th and cond-mat.stat-mech

Abstract: We study perturbative Wilsonian renormalisation group (RG) for the scalar $\phi4$ theory at finite temperature to one loop order in the Schwinger-Keldysh closed-time-path (CTP) formalism. By explicitly integrating out the UV modes, we show how effective interactions coupling the two branches of the CTP contour arise. This provides a microscopic derivation of the type of effective CTP actions used in the literature. While the full effective theory has no critical points, we instead proceed to study critical properties of the RG flow in a reduced space of complex couplings that characterise certain time-ordered correlators and show the existence of two novel fixed points in $d=4$ spacetime dimensions. We relate one to the Wilson-Fisher fixed point known to exist only in $4-\epsilon$ dimensions, and the other to the standard Gaussian fixed point.

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