Sequences of Trees and Higher-Order Renormalization Group Equations

dc.contributor.authorDugan, William
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-27T17:59:17Z
dc.date.available2019-08-27T17:59:17Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-27
dc.date.submitted2019-08-20
dc.description.abstractIn 1998, Connes and Kreimer introduced a combinatorial Hopf algebra HCK on the vector space of forests of rooted trees that precisely explains the phenomenon of renormalization in quantum field theory. This Hopf algebra has been of great interest since its inception, as it connects the disciplines of algebra, combinatorics, and physics, providing interesting questions in each. In this thesis we introduce the notion of higher-order renormalization group equations, which generalize the usual renormalization group equation of quantum field theory, and further define a corresponding notion of order on certain sequences of trees constituting elements of the completion of HCK. We also give an explication of a result, due to Foissy, that characterizes which sequences of linear combinations of trees with one generator in each degree generate Hopf subalgebras of HCK. We conclude with some results towards classifying these sequences by their order (when such an order is admitted), and discuss the place of the Connes-Moscovici Hopf subalgebra in the context of this new framework.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/14957
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectmathematicsen
dc.subjectalgebraic combinatoricsen
dc.subjectHopf algebrasen
dc.subjectquantum field theoryen
dc.subjectprelie algebrasen
dc.titleSequences of Trees and Higher-Order Renormalization Group Equationsen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Mathematicsen
uws-etd.degree.departmentCombinatorics and Optimizationen
uws-etd.degree.disciplineCombinatorics and Optimizationen
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws.contributor.advisorYeats, Karen
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Mathematicsen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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