Contents

Talk:Anomalous scaling dimension

This redirect does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Physics Low‑importance This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Physics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Physics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PhysicsWikipedia:WikiProject PhysicsTemplate:WikiProject Physicsphysics articles Low This redirect has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Easier Introduction??[edit]

I believe the article on the anomalous scaling dimension should have a much easier introduction.

I think it represents the way in which a system (exponentially) diverges from what we would expect. For instance, if we believe something to be proportional to ${\displaystyle r^{2}}$ but it is in fact proportional to ${\displaystyle r^{2+\alpha }}$, then this ${\displaystyle \alpha }$ is exactly the anomaly, or the "anomalous scaling dimension". Please correct me if this not true.

--131.174.17.91 (talk) 16:20, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps someone can expand on the unelaborated statement "Anomalous scaling appears also in classical physics." The first paragraph of the article currently seems to imply the opposite by saying that "the anomalous scaling dimension of an operator is the contribution of quantum mechanics to the classical scaling dimension of that operator." Googling seems to turn up some references to turbulence? 74.103.51.39 (talk) 05:28, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]