Renormalizing an initial state

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2014)124MaRDI QIDQ271343zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hael Collins, Tereza Vardanyan, Richard Holman

Publication date 7 April 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4801

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMrenormalization regularization and renormalons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The intricate machinery of perturbative quantum field theory has largely been devoted to the 'dynamical' side of the theory: simple states are evolved in complicated ways. This article begins to address this lopsided treatment. Although it is rarely possible to solve for the eigenstates of an interacting theory exactly, a general state and its evolution can nonetheless be constructed perturbatively in terms of the propagators and structures defined with respect to the free theory. The detailed form of the initial state in this picture is fixed by imposing suitable `renormalization conditions' on the Green's functions. This technique is illustrated with an example drawn from inflation, where the presence of nonrenormalizable operators and where an expansion that naturally couples early times with short distances make the ability to start the theory at a finite initial time especially desirable.

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