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We present a rigorous renormalization group construction of the two-dimensional massless and massive quantum sine-Gordon models in finite volume for the range 0<β<8π. We prove analyticity in the coupling constant ζ, which implies the convergence of perturbation theory. The field correlation functions and their generating functional are analyzed and shown to have the short distance asymptotics of the free field theory. In the massive case the bounds are uniform in volume and we also obtain uniform estimates on the long distance decay of correlations.
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Communicated by K. Gawedzki
Research supported by NSF Grant PHY-9001178
Research supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Dimock, J., Hurd, T.R. Construction of the two-dimensional sine-Gordon model for β<8π. Commun.Math. Phys. 156, 547–580 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096863
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