Soft collinear degeneracies in an asymptotically free theory (Q1949907)

Summary: In asymptotically free theories with collinear divergences it is sometimes claimed that these divergences are cancelled if one sums over initial and final state degenerate cross-sections and uses an off-shell renormalisation scheme. We show for scalar \(\Phi^3\) theory in six dimensions that there are further classes of soft collinear divergences and that they are not cancelled. Furthermore, they yield a nonconvergent series of terms at a fixed order of perturbation theory. Similar effects in gauge theories are also summarised.