Running couplings with a vanishing scale anomaly

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2013)098MaRDI QIDQ737841zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Carlos Tamarit

Publication date 12 August 2016

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0913

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupanomalies in field and string theoriesrenormalization regularization and renormalons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: Running couplings can be understood as arising from the spontaneous breaking of an exact scale invariance in appropriate effective theories with no dilatation anomaly. Any ordinary quantum field theory, even if it has massive fields, can be embedded into a theory with spontaneously broken exact scale invariance in such a way that the ordinary running is recovered in the appropriate limit, as long as the potential has a flat direction. These scale-invariant theories, however, do not necessarily solve the cosmological constant or naturalness problems, which become manifest in the need to fine-tune dimensionless parameters.

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