That is, we replace ∫ddk(2π)dF(\Bk)⟶∫ddk(2π)dF(\Bk)\gla(\Bk), where F(\Bk) is any function and \gla(\Bk) is the cutoff fun...That is, we replace ∫ddk(2π)dF(\Bk)⟶∫ddk(2π)dF(\Bk)\gla(\Bk), where F(\Bk) is any function and \gla(\Bk) is the cutoff function. The idea behind renormalization is that we can successively winnow degrees of freedom from a system in some exact or approximate way, and in so doing we generate a new version of the system, at a different length scale ℓ′>ℓ, and with different couplings {K′α}.