Concept information
Preferred term
renormalization
Definition(s)
- Renormalization is a collection of techniques in quantum field theory, the statistical mechanics of fields, and the theory of self-similar geometric structures, that are used to treat infinities arising in calculated quantities by altering values of these quantities to compensate for effects of their self-interactions. But even if no infinities arose in loop diagrams in quantum field theory, it could be shown that it would be necessary to renormalize the mass and fields appearing in the original Lagrangian. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization)
Broader concept(s)
Synonym(s)
- renormalisation
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-RT07HKDN-D
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