RENORMALIZATION WITHOUT INFINITIES

DOI10.1142/S0217751X05024249MaRDI QIDQ4678430zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gerard 't Hooft

Publication date 23 May 2005

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405032

zbMATH Keywords

Feynman diagramsrenormalizationrenormalization groupultraviolet infinities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18)

Abstract: Most renormalizable quantum field theories can be rephrased in terms of Feynman diagrams that only contain dressed irreducible 2-, 3-, and 4-point vertices. These irreducible vertices in turn can be solved from equations that also only contain dressed irreducible vertices. The diagrams and equations that one ends up with do not contain any ultraviolet divergences. The original bare Lagrangian of the theory only enters in terms of freely adjustable integration constants. It is explained how the procedure proposed here is related to the renormalization group equations. The procedure requires the identification of unambiguous "paths" in a Feynman diagrams, and it is shown how to define such paths in most of the quantum field theories that are in use today. We do not claim to have a more convenient calculational scheme here, but rather a scheme that allows for a better conceptual understanding of ultraviolet infinities. Dedicated to Paul Frampton's 60th birthday

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