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Weyl consistency conditions are a powerful tool to study the irreversibility properties of the renormalization group. We apply this formalism to non-relativistic theories in 2 spatial dimensions with boost invariance and dynamical exponent z = 2. Different possibilities are explored, depending on the structure of the gravitational background used as a source for the energy-momentum tensor.
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Auzzi, R., Baiguera, S., Filippini, F. et al. On Newton-Cartan local renormalization group and anomalies. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 163 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2016)163
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