Point-splitting Regularization of Composite Operators and Anomalies

DOI10.1002/(SICI)1521-3978(200004)48:4%3C253::AID-PROP253%3E3.0.CO;2-3MaRDI QIDQ4507609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 8 October 2000

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9803244

zbMATH Keywords

regularizationanomalypoint-splittingWard-Takahashi identitieslocal algebraic quantum field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

Abstract: The point-splitting regularization technique for composite operators is discussed in connection with anomaly calculation. We present a pedagogical and self-contained review of the topic with an emphasis on the technical details. We also develop simple algebraic tools to handle the path ordered exponential insertions used within the covariant and non-covariant version of the point-splitting method. The method is then applied to the calculation of the chiral, vector, trace, translation and Lorentz anomalies within diverse versions of the point-splitting regularization and a connection between the results is described. As an alternative to the standard approach we use the idea of deformed point-split transformation and corresponding Ward-Takahashi identities rather than an application of the equation of motion, which seems to save the complexity of the calculations.

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