Wonderful compactifications in quantum field theory

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2015.V9.N3.A2zbMATH Open1376.81052arXiv1411.5583MaRDI QIDQ889125FDOQ889125

Marko Berghoff

Publication date: 6 November 2015

Published in: Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This article reviews the use of DeConcini-Procesi wonderful models in renormalization of ultraviolet divergences in position space as introduced by Bergbauer, Brunetti and Kreimer. In contrast to the exposition there we employ a slightly different approach; instead of the subspaces in the arrangement of divergent loci, we use the poset of divergent subgraphs as the main tool to describe the whole renormalization process. This is based on an article by Feichtner, where wonderful models were studied from a purely combinatorial viewpoint. The main motivation for this approach is the fact that both, renormalization and the model construction, are governed by the combinatorics of this poset. Not only simplifies this the exposition considerably, but also allows to study the renormalization operators in more detail. Moreover, we explore the renormalization group in this setting by studying how the renormalized distributions behave under a change of renormalization points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5583

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zbMATH Keywords

compactificationrenormalisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Hopf algebras and their applications (16T05)

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