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Bilocal flows and universality with field-dependent regulators

  • Alfio M. Bonanno
  • Renata Ferrero
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Abstract

Many functional renormalization group flows employ a regulator that depends on the fields, as in proper-time and spectrally adjusted flows and in background-independent formulations of gauge theories and quantum gravity. Such a regulator generates additional terms in the flow, and their omission may spoil universality. We introduce bilocal flows, in which the effective action depends on the field and on the cutoff kernel as independent variables. The construction identifies the additional terms, and an exact sum rule shows that the first nontrivial coefficient of the anomalous dimension coincides with that of a fixed-regulator flow for every admissible regulator profile, so that universality is restored. For massless λϕ4 theory with a proper-time regulator, the reduced flow gives a profile-dependent anomalous dimension, while the completed flow gives the universal two-loop coefficient Cη=1/6 for every profile.

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@misc{bonanno2026bilocal,
  title = {{Bilocal flows and universality with field-dependent regulators}},
  author = {Alfio M. Bonanno and Renata Ferrero},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.27063},
  eprint = {2610.27063},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27063},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Bilocal flows and universality with field-dependent regulators
AU  - Alfio M. Bonanno
AU  - Renata Ferrero
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/19
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.27063
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27063
AB  - Many functional renormalization group flows employ a regulator that depends on the fields, as in proper-time and spectrally adjusted flows and in background-independent formulations of gauge theories and quantum gravity. Such a regulator generates additional terms in the flow, and their omission may spoil universality. We introduce bilocal flows, in which the effective action depends on the field and on the cutoff kernel as independent variables. The construction identifies the additional terms, and an exact sum rule shows that the first nontrivial coefficient of the anomalous dimension coincides with that of a fixed-regulator flow for every admissible regulator profile, so that universality is restored. For massless λϕ^4 theory with a proper-time regulator, the reduced flow gives a profile-dependent anomalous dimension, while the completed flow gives the universal two-loop coefficient C_η=1/6 for every profile.
ER  -