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hep-th2007★ 48 cited
Some Applications of Ricci Flow in Physics
E. Woolgar
I discuss certain applications of the Ricci flow in physics. I first review how it arises in the renormalization group (RG) flow of a nonlinear sigma model. I then review the conce…
hep-th2007★ 17 cited
A Metric for Gradient RG Flow of the Worldsheet Sigma Model Beyond First Order
T. Oliynyk, V. Suneeta, E. Woolgar
Tseytlin has recently proposed that an action functional exists whose gradient generates to all orders in perturbation theory the Renormalization Group (RG) flow of the target spac…