Introduction to the Functional Renormalization Group (Hardcover)

I Foundations of the renormalization group.- Phase Transitions and the Scaling Hypothesis.- Mean-Field Theory and the Gaussian Approximation.- Wilsonian Renormalization Group.- Critical Behavior of the Ising Model Close to Four Dimensions.- Field-Theoretical Renormalization Group.- II Introduction to the functional renormalization group.- Functional Methods.- Exact FRG Flow Equations.- Vertex Expansion.- Derivative Expansion.- III Functional renormalization group approach to fermions.- Fermionic Functional Renormalization Group.- Normal Fermions: Partial Bosonization in the Forward Scattering Channel.- Superfluid Fermions: Partial Bosonization in the Particle-Particle Channel.