Functional Methods for the Renormalization Group

Lecturer: G. P. Vacca (INFN Researcher)

Duration: 12 hours in May

Preliminary programme (subject to potential changes):

1. QFT and generating functionals
2. Wilsonian renormalization group
3. Perturbation theory: functional Renormalization Group and relation to CFT at leading order for the potential
4. Non perturbative functional RG flow of the Wilsonian action and generating functionals
5. RG schemes and approximations
6. Hands on some examples
7. More theoretical developments/open problems

Possible homework assignments.