An algebraic criterion for the ultraviolet finiteness of quantum field theories

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/44/310zbMATH Open0990.81077arXivhep-th/0103110OpenAlexW3099497223MaRDI QIDQ4533591FDOQ4533591

Authors: V. E. R. Lemes, M. S. Sarandy, O. S. Ventura, Luiz Claudio Queiroz Vilar, Silvio Paolo Sorella 

Publication date: 11 June 2002

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An algebraic criterion for the vanishing of the beta function for renormalizable quantum field theories is presented. Use is made of the descent equations following from the Wess-Zumino consistency condition. In some cases, these equations relate the fully quantized action to a local gauge invariant polynomial. The vanishing of the anomalous dimension of this polynomial enables us to establish a nonrenormalization theorem for the beta function $$, stating that if the one-loop order contribution vanishes, then $$ will vanish to all orders of perturbation theory. As a by-product, the special case in which $$ is only of one-loop order, without further corrections, is also covered. The examples of the N=2,4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories are worked out in detail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0103110

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zbMATH Keywords

Wess-Zumino consistency condition\(N=2,4\) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theoriesbeta function for renormalizable quantum field theorieslocal gauge invariant polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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