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Yuji Igarashi, Katsumi Itoh, Hiroto So, BRS Symmetry, the Quantum Master Equation and the Wilsonian Renormalization Group, Progress of Theoretical Physics, Volume 106, Issue 1, July 2001, Pages 149–166, https://doi.org/10.1143/PTP.106.149
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Abstract
Recently we made a proposal for realization of an effective BRS symmetry along the Wilsonian renormalization group flow. In this paper we show that the idea can be naturally extended to the most general gauge theories. Extensive use of the antifield formalism is made to reveal some remarkable structure of the effective BRS symmetry. The average action, defined with a continuum analog of the block spin transformation, obeys the quantum master equation (QME), provided that a UV action does so. We show that the RG flow described by the exact flow equations is generated by canonical transformations in the field-antifield space. Using the relation between the average action and the Legendre effective action, we establish the equivalence between the QME for the average action and the modified Ward-Takahashi identity for the Legendre action. The QME remains intact when the regularization is removed.
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