The Inverse of Exact Renormalization Group Flows as Statistical Inference

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11379v2
• Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 14:30:57 GMT
• Title: The Inverse of Exact Renormalization Group Flows as Statistical Inference
• Authors: David S. Berman, Marc S. Klinger,
• Abstract summary: We build on the view of the Exact Renormalization Group (ERG) as an instantiation of Optimal Transport. We provide a new information theoretic perspective for understanding the ERG through the intermediary of Bayesian Statistical Inference.
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• Abstract: We build on the view of the Exact Renormalization Group (ERG) as an instantiation of Optimal Transport described by a functional convection-diffusion equation. We provide a new information theoretic perspective for understanding the ERG through the intermediary of Bayesian Statistical Inference. This connection is facilitated by the Dynamical Bayesian Inference scheme, which encodes Bayesian inference in the form of a one parameter family of probability distributions solving an integro-differential equation derived from Bayes' law. In this note, we demonstrate how the Dynamical Bayesian Inference equation is, itself, equivalent to a diffusion equation which we dub Bayesian Diffusion. Identifying the features that define Bayesian Diffusion, and mapping them onto the features that define the ERG, we obtain a dictionary outlining how renormalization can be understood as the inverse of statistical inference.

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