Rethinking renormalization

DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-6263-8_30MaRDI QIDQ3449758zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. R. Klauder

Publication date 5 November 2015

Published in The Legacy of Alladi Ramakrishnan in the Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.2869

zbMATH Keywords

renormalizationgeneral quantum field theoryquantum field theory on a lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: As applied to quantum theories, the program of renormalization is successful for `renormalizable models' but fails for `nonrenormalizable models'. After some conceptual discussion and analysis, an enhanced program of renormalization is proposed that is designed to bring the `nonrenormalizable models' under control as well. The new principles are developed by studying several, carefully chosen, soluble examples, and include a recognition of a `hard-core' behavior of the interaction and, in special cases, an extremely elementary procedure to remove the source of all divergences. Our discussion provides the background for a recent proposal for a nontrivial quantization of nonrenormalizable scalar quantum field models, which is briefly summarized as well.

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