An introduction to the nonperturbative renormalization group

Abstract

We give in these notes a short presentation of both the main ideas underlying Wilson's renormalization group (RG) and their concrete implementation under the form of what is now called the non-perturbative renormalization group (NPRG) or sometimes the functional renormalization group (which can be perturbative). Prior knowledge of perturbative field theory is not required for the understanding of the heart of the article. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.