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Self-similarity & the Foundation of Effective Field Theory
Abstract
We argue that the fundamental symmetries of effective field theory can be traced to the onset of self-similarity. In particular, the scale-free structure of fractal geometry lies at the heart of invariance principles in classical and quantum field theory.