Quantum fields and motives

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2005.04.004MaRDI QIDQ2575590zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 5 December 2005

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504085, https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20110224-082841783

zbMATH Keywords

Hopf algebras perturbative renormarization Riemann-Hilbert correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois theory (11S20) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16)

Abstract: This is a survey of our results on the relation between perturbative renormalization and motivic Galois theory. The main result is that all quantum field theories share a common universal symmetry realized as a motivic Galois group, whose action is dictated by the divergences and generalizes that of the renormalization group. The existence of such a group was conjectured by P. Cartier based on number theoretic evidence and on the Connes-Kreimer theory of perturbative renormalization. The group provides a universal formula for counterterms and is obtained via a Riemann-Hilbert correspondence classifying equivalence classes of flat equisingular bundles, where the equisingularity condition corresponds to the independence of the counterterms on the mass scale.

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The paper is a survey of results of the authors concerning the relationship between perturbative renormalization and motivic Galois theory. It is shown that all quantum field theories have a common universal symmetry given by a motivic Galois group. This group provides a universal formula for couterterms and is obtained via Riemann-Hilbert correspondence.

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