Triviality of quantum electrodynamics revisited

DOI10.1088/0253-6102/69/3/263zbMATH Open1391.81207arXiv1706.10039OpenAlexW2733177693MaRDI QIDQ3177515FDOQ3177515

Authors: D. Djukanovic, J. Gegelia, Ulf-G. Meißner 

Publication date: 26 July 2018

Published in: Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum electrodynamics is considered to be a trivial theory. This is based on a number of evidences, both numerical and analytical. One of the strong indications for triviality of QED is the existence of the Landau pole for the running coupling. We show that by treating QED as the leading order approximation of an effective field theory and including the next-to-leading order corrections, the Landau pole is removed. Therefore, we conclude that the conjecture, that for reasons of self-consistency, QED needs to be trivial is a mere artefact of the leading order approximation to the corresponding effective field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.10039

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalizationphotonstheory of quantized fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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