This is an introduction to the method of effective field theory. As an application, I derive the effective field theory of low energy excitations in a conductor, the Landau theory of Fermi liquids, and explain why the high-Tc superconductors must be described by a different effective field theory.
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Joseph Polchinski (1992) studied this question.
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