Philosophical implications of Kadanoff's work on the renormalization group

DOI10.1007/s10955-016-1659-9zbMath1375.82041OpenAlexW2547725682MaRDI QIDQ2401454

Robert W. Batterman

Publication date: 8 September 2017

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-016-1659-9

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupuniversalityIsing modelminimal modelsexplanationblock transformationsKadanoff

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) History of statistical mechanics (82-03)

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