An Introduction to Universality and Renormalization Group Techniques
by Alessandro Sfondrini
Publisher: arXiv 2012
Number of pages: 72
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These lecture notes have been written for a short introductory course on universality and renormalization group techniques given at the VIII Modave School in Mathematical Physics by the author, intended for PhD students and researchers new to these topics.
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