More on the subtraction algorithm

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/2/005MaRDI QIDQ4763727zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 18 April 1995

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9407023

Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism gauge invariance quantum gauge field theory

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We go on in the program of investigating the removal of divergences of a generical quantum gauge field theory, in the context of the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism. We extend to open gauge-algebrae a recently formulated algorithm, based on redefinitions

d e l t a l a m b d a

of the parameters

l a m b d a

of the classical Lagrangian and canonical transformations, by generalizing a well- known conjecture on the form of the divergent terms. We also show that it is possible to reach a complete control on the effects of the subtraction algorithm on the space

{c a l M}_{g f}

of the gauge-fixing parameters. A principal fiber bundle

c a l E i g h t a r r o w {c a l M}_{g f}

with a connection

o m e g a_{1}

is defined, such that the canonical transformations are gauge transformations for

o m e g a_{1}

. This provides an intuitive geometrical description of the fact the on shell physical amplitudes cannot depend on

{c a l M}_{g f}

. A geometrical description of the effect of the subtraction algorithm on the space

{c a l M}_{p h}

of the physical parameters

l a m b d a

is also proposed. At the end, the full subtraction algorithm can be described as a series of diffeomorphisms on

{c a l M}_{p h}

, orthogonal to

{c a l M}_{g f}

(under which the action transforms as a scalar), and gauge transformations on

c a l E

. In this geometrical context, a suitable concept of predictivity is formulated. We give some examples of (unphysical) toy models that satisfy this requirement, though being neither power counting renormalizable, nor finite.

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