Renormalization Group Transformations Near the Critical Point: Some Rigorous Results

Abstract

We consider renormalization group (RG) transformations for classical Ising-type lattice spin systems in the infinite volume limit. Formally, the RG maps a Hamiltonian H into a renormalized Hamiltonian H': exp(-H'(σ'))=\sum_σT(σ, σ')exp(-H(σ)), where T(σ, σ') denotes a specific RG probability kernel, \sum_σ' T(σ, σ')=1, for every configuration σ. With the help of the Dobrushin uniqueness condition and standard results on the polymer expansion, Haller and Kennedy gave a sufficient condition for the existence of the renormalized Hamiltonian in a neighborhood of the critical point. By a more complicated but reasonably straightforward application of the cluster expansion machinery, the present investigation shows that their condition would further imply a band structure on the matrix of partial derivatives of the renormalized interaction with respect to the original interaction. This in turn gives an upper bound for the RG linearization.