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Compilation from Phil's Utah years labeled Renormalization Group, Particle Physics, Notes 1978. It includes pages from Bogoliubov and Shirkov's Theory of Quantized Fields (Chapter 8, the group of multiplicative renormalizations) with Phil's typed commentary on the invariant charge, the Lie equations, the asymptotic UV solution and the link to Gell-Mann and Low. It also includes Callan's 1970 paper on broken scale invariance in scalar field theory and handwritten calculations that are mostly illegible in the OCR.
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Renormalization Group - papers
(Particle Physics)
Notes
Phil Lucht Notes 1978
Bogoliubov &Shirkov
Intro totheTheory ofQuantized Fields
Chapt 8The Renormalization Group
Alin 2026: Introduction totheTheory ofQuantized Fields (1959) byN.N. Bogoliubov and
D.V. Shirkovis consideredaclassicandfoundational text,butitisoutdatedforlearning modern Quantum Field Theory (QFT) asabeginner. While itsmathematical foundations and
historical significance inthedevelopment ofrenormalization groupmethods remainhighlyregarded, modern curricula favornewertextbooks forcovering contemporary techniques.
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510 THEORY OFQUANTIZED FIELDS
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leads tothe expression ‘itees ‘TheRenormalization Group(sepGg)= TS| (¢) os Tr’ (41.27) ;
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v=fdy eo=—1+O'(e). 42.1,IntroductionBycombining expressions (41.26)and(41.27)weobtain Weshallnowturntotheinvestigation of@methodofim-«final expression fortheTlectronGressfeacon ietheBlock, proving perturbation theoryformulas whichisbasedontheNordsieck model: renormalization’ groupoccurring infieldtheory; thiswasalready
1 ’mentionedinChapterV,Theideaofthismethodisextremely =e. (41.28) simple,andisbasedonthefactthattheindividual termsof m—(up)m perturbation.theory expansionsfortheGreen’sfunctionsandfor where» thevertex parts arenotinvariant with respect totherenormalizat
a3—a) a tiongroup,whilethequantities themselves areinvariant with p=wr TT(3—a) (41.29) respect tothisgroup. Therefore, forexample, intheultraviolet
| region perturbation theory expansions turn outtobegiven, not
(a=1/187 isthefinestructure constant). interms ofpowers ofthesquare ofthecharge etbutinterms of
Oncomparing (41.28) with(41.3),weseethatthetotal powers oftheproduct e?In(4%/mt)Green’s function differs from thefree-field Green's function bythe Starting with these considerations, weshall trytotransform
factor theusual expansions into ones invariant with respect tothe
,—)f. renormalization group.Animportant technicalmeansofac- ™ complishing thiswillbetheLiedifferential equations correspond-
IfthecompletefunctionG’(f)isexpandedinaseriesinpowersof |ingtotheaforementioned renormalization group.«,thenineachapproximation weshallobtain logarithmic terms Ttshould benotedthat Stueckelberg_andPeterman (118).WO)_pela i. 1alreadyremarkedontheexistenceoftherenormalization grouproe =fllo1-£gay|Le|tee andon.itsroleinquantumfieldtheory.Theyalsopointedout™ Qn ™ ' i thepossibility ofintroducing thecorresponding infinitesimalcharacteristic oftheinfrared catastrophe. operators andinthiswayindicated thepossibility ofconstructing
___Itwillbeshown inthenextchapter (§43.3) thattheinfrared : theLiedifferential equations.
singularity oftheelectron Green's function intheusual spinor Essentially thesame renormalization group, butfrom a
electrodynamics alsohasthenature (41.28). different point ofview, wasutilized byGell-Mann andLow(48)
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Bogoliubov andShirkov, Chapter8ontheRenormalization Group 8
First, thebasic and simple idea ofthe renormalization group (group of
miltivlicative renormalizetions) issetupasin42.2. Itjust saus that, taking
Ward into consideration, ifyou slide allyour Greens functions andyour charge
atthesametime, nothing changes. Yourlocation, sotospeak ,onthisslide is
recorded bytherenormalization point parameter \.Ihave made some notes already
onthis business, seeRenorm inQED stapled section inGeneral Field Theory binder.
ksareminder oftheir notation, thefunction disthephoton oronagactr
mumberator function, whilce aandbaretheelectron prop numerators. Sometimes
these two are treated together ass.
With some straightforward dimensional fiddling (all ofwhich Ihave verified)
youquickly endup,eg,with equation (42.13) which says: thequantitys eandd
each devend ontherenormalization point, butthecombination e*d isindependent
of\andistherefore, reasonably, called theinvariant charge. Thenotation dy
refers tothe usual d,ie, dwith the renorm point chosen at\=0.Thecorresponding
charge inthis case istheobserved charge e,
Now, the basic "global" renormalization group equations are (42.10) for d
6 and(42.15) fors=aorb.Theseequations areverysimilar tothosediscussed
byGell-Mann end Low, but they seem tobemore clearly derived and there are not
somany differnt functions. The pair ofR-group equations isthen rewritten as
(42.17 and 18).
Itseems tomethat, inthese equations, (x,y,t,e~) should beregarded as
independent variebles, anddandsarethefunctions, eshe of3variables, that
youwanttodetermine. Ie,e*isnotitself afunction here .Nowitturns out
that you need some "boundary conditions" inorder togetameaningful solution
ofthese "functional" equations. Anobvious fect isthis: when theparamter e2
(the variable e2)isvery small, youknow dandsasperturbation exoansions.
Now, bydifferentiating the global equations they end upwith some differential
equations (42.24 end25). They call thése Lieequationas, fine. Here ishowyouare
supposed tosolve them: first, yousomehow figure outwhat d(x,y,e%) isforxnear
unity. Thismeans k*near. Ityoukeepe*small, youcanuseperturbation
estimates theri forthefunctions Jand/{. Then youintegrate thepreceding two
equations tolearn d(x,y,e*) forgeneral x,perhaps xcorresponding toasymmomentum.
AsanalSde,itisnotedthatthevertexhasmenyinvariantfunctionsandeach Fe)one has anequation similar tothe above equation for sord.
Now lets goright totheUVsolution attempt, page 524. Asymptotic means in
effect that you can setvariable y=0, thus simplifying things. Thelie equations
arethen (43.3 and4).First, equation (43.3) isintegrated toyield (43.7),
aresult familier from Gell_Mann Low ormodern BETA functions discussions (later).In43.7,ifyouknewthefunctiong,youcouldsolveford,verhaps.Letssee.(*)
Asafirst step, they quote aresult which gives d(x,e) acaperturbation
expansion through order é,where x=p/n? islarge. Thisthing iscalled dy
because itiscomputed with theusual %:0.Notice that ineffect this thing
isnotanexpansion ine2,butine@logx andxislarge!
Now they take some steps Idont quite follow. Ipresume that (443.9) isthe
large xresult, notreally valid forxnear 1,Buttousethis d,tovompute J,
youneed d(x..) forxnear 1andthey aregoing touse(43.9). Ithink they ere
claiming that this isOKto“logarithmic accuracy". Sothen ¥isasgiven in
(43.10) for small 2..
Butheway ,notice in(42.24) that thevalue ofthelast arument of¢
is07d,nutjuste”,soreally allthisstuff (using perturbation series for#)
isvalid onlywhene®dissmall, ie2issmall (myETAinnotes). Thus43.10
“pives B(z) forsmall 2.Nowplug this into (43.7) andwegettheresult (43.12).
Nowihave”to ask: whyis43.12 anybetter than 43.9 277 Itissupposed to
be “better” somehow.
The conclusions that BSdraw from this section are alittle disapzainting.True,theyhavesolvedforthefunction d(x,e*) asin(43.12), buttheydont &
goontoask: what does e”look like athigh energy, insome sense.
Itseems tomelooking at(42.14) that what youreally want toknow is
thebehavior ofthefunction d,(x,e,*) since thiswilltellyouwhatthecharge
does asafunction ofrenormalization point. Iguess that iswhyGell-Mann Low
have twofunctions sand s,, akin toBS's danddy.
Soalthough Iamable toderive almost everything here, the conelusions are
2let down. However, having derived 43.7, Ifeel Ihave derived Gell-Mann Low
equation (5.9). Inthatparer, symbol eisrenorm charge ande,isbarecharge.
Recall thatiftheir PSI(x) hasazeroatsomefinite x-x,, thenlarge acorresponds
toafinite value ofthe bare charge. Bare charge ofcourse means the asymptotic
charge. ..
Iamstopping onpage 529. Authors goontotreat theuse oftheR-group
tofindbehavior ofelectron propnearpean’. Theresult is(43.27)
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& euystcat euvisw D VOLUME 2,NUMBER & 1s OCTOBER 1970 .
. Broken Scale Invariance inScalar Field Theory*
* Curtis G.Cattan, Jx.t =
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hesimplestavailable modelfieldsi0,betweenthescalingJawandthepredictions ofthe : ‘theory, andaconvenient laboratory fortesting new renormalization grou‘ideasinstrong-interaction physics.InthispaperweTenormalization group.shall beconcerned with studying theconcept ofbroken
scale invariance within such aframework. Weshall I.BROKEN SCALE INVARIANCE
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ofPCAC low-energy theorems). InSec.IIweshallsee wheredisthedimension ofthefield;(c)thecurrent5, howthegeneral structure ofrenormalized perturbation satisfies d*S,=@ sothatitisconserved when thecearetheoryconstrains theallowable formofthescalinglaw.n@dimensional coupling constants intheLagrangian.andforces ittodiffer fromnaive expectations. InSec. With thehelpofthecurrentS,anditsequal-timecom. TILweshallshow howtheexistence ofthescaling law mutation relations withfields, given above, oneisable
*Work supported inpartbytheU.S. Atomic Energy Commis *C, G,Callan, Jr, S/Coleman, and . Jackin, Ann. PhysinwaderSectSPAT GesnditheRARoce) 32,48CIO) x a OfteofScentiteResearchunderContractNovAPOSR70-1860,|#M.Gell-Mann,UniversityofHavcaitSummerSchoollectures, 1dilral Shan Fandom Felon 1969 (unpublished).
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acting onaGreens function G”yields F,where Finvolves theVEVTOP ofthefields
along with 0,the divergence ofthe dilatation current. Ifyou have scale invarience,
then this current isconserved, 0-0, and F=0, This formelism was invented toprovide
aframework for desbribing the breaking ofscale invariance bymass terms inthe lagrangien.
Inthe next section itisshown that something iswrong with these scale-ward
identities because they predict something which cannot betrue, Namely, you can show
that consideration of§G"=F"forthe "basic n"ofthetheoryh (ie, forthe renorm
parts like n=2,4) requires there tobead/d\ term added tothe operator S,aterm
which does not come out ofthe scale-Ward identities. This analysis requires that you
simply pay attention tok renormalization theory and how meny times each renorm pert is
subtracted.
The result isthis: even ifyou have naive scale invariance with nomass terms
inyour lagrangian, thescaling lawreads $G"=0 where Smust contain thet extra term.
Ithink this equation S$G"=0 islater called theCallen Symanzik equation. The
extra term issometimes called "implicit scale breaking", nice that itcan beincorporated
CO cosimply.
Aless higborically significant part ofthis paper says that there isaniterative
method ofcomputing theG*which allows youtoavoid alloverlap problems. Butthe
main result ofthis paper and the reason itisfamous isthe statement ofthat simple
scaling law. This law implies that the lerge momenta behavior ofagreéns function
(iewhere masses dont matter) issomehow correlated todependente ofG®onthecoupling
constant .Itisnoted also that thescaling lawisnotrescued merely byallowing
the scale dimension ofthe fields togoanomolous. You really need that extra term in
there.
From mypresent viewpoint, Ithink the origin ofthis extra term isclearly
explained inthe Abarbanel review.
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Goldstone one, although this‘question ismeaningful.
Renormalizable Models TheGoldstone situation caninanintuitively appealing waybe .+rn 7 illuminated intermsofthebehaviour oftheground stateenergy densitywithSimple Symmetry Breaking tsafinetion ofthesourcestrength, Thediscussion hereto,fecliar in
I,Symmetry Breaking byaSource Term theclassical case,carries overwithfewchanges toquantum fieldtheory,
whereby, however, aformal similarity tothetheory ofcondensation
K.Symanzix ofYang and Lee (8}isnoted. .
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg InSection 1,thewell-known one-particle structure ofGreen's
functions ispresented concisely. InSection II,forGreen’s functions
Received September 30,1969 involving current operators thathavesimple commutators withthefields, Ward-Takahashi-Kazes- andRivers-type identities arederived. ;oaLagrangiandensitywithinvariance undercontinuous groupftiner|IfSectionIIL,theformulasofthefirsttwosectionsarewrittenforthe :sansormstionsfhefaserastortnerinhedewacded,thesymmenys |specicaseofasymmetricLagrangian densitywithaddedtermleat i ingeneralreducedandthecrrensassciaioa withtheoriginalsymmetryareonlypartialy|inBostfields.Theserelations areusedinSectionIVtoobtaintheBPH 'Conservedthetheorywitouttheaddedtrm&enormaliabl thheywihtht|renormalization conditionsintermsofonlythenumberofparameterstermalsoisandtheneededrenormalization conditionsaretheessentialcontentof thatappearintheunrenormalized Lagrangian. Thesameisdone,withPaeaeincainBonRideCoveytna)hecealoedcouplcrthrierargeutar wig|somenecessaryprecautiontoavoidspuriousinfrareddivergences,in ; respecttothenonsymmetrc limitofvanishingsourceterm,aparticularGoldstonemode,|SectionVfortheassociated Goldstone mode,i.e.thelimittheorywith andwith respect toproperties ofthe ground state energy densityasafunctionofthestrengh |vanishingsourceandspontaneously brokensymmetry, whichmay cofthesourceterm.Inducedandspontaneous breakingofadiseretesymmetryarealio|alsobedescribed directlyintermsofamanifestlynonsymmetric La- | treated, grangian. InSection VI,therelation between thetheories withandwith- .
. outsymmetry breaking source term isdiscussed and acomparison isIntroduction madewiththebreakingofadiscretesymmetry.Theappendixcontains ; B.W.Lee[1]hasdiscussedthesigmamodel[2,3]fromthepointof|thediscussionofthepropertiesofthegroundstateenergyasafunction view ofrenormalized perturbation theory, inorder tohave availal ofthesource strength, which areobtained using results ofEuclidean
modelthatsatisfiesPCAC!andallowstocalculate inaformalbutcon.}quantumfieldtheory.sistent waytheamplitudes forprocesses involving nonsoft pions. ‘Thecalculation oftheGreen’s functions involving acurrent operator
‘Weshallshowhere?thatforsuchmodelstherenormalized perturba. }will,becauseofthetechnique neededhereby,beincluded inthesequeltionexpansions canbeverysimplyobtained iftherelations, stemming |-papef,whichdealswithsymmetry breaking byatermbilinear infields.fromPCAC,betweenvertexfunctionsofdifferentnumbersofarguments ;‘areexploited. These relations yield allthe*renormalization conditions" " * .requiredinBogoliubov-Parasiuk-Hepp (BPH)?renormalization theory 1.One-Particle StructureofGreen'sFunctions ,intermsofonlythatmanyparameters astheunrenormalized Lagrangian Wewishtoconsider thePoincaré-invariant theoryofamulti- has.ThistechniquealsocoverstheGoldstone mode*obtainedinthelimit}component localhermitean fieldA(x)describedbytheLagrangian density ofvanishing source but,since itdeals with renormalized quantities only,=—_—_ L=L(A,0A). qt)7Ref GHdiscusses thesigma model and related models from thepoint ofviewof ; applicationstopionphysics. Tothisendweconsider, following Schwinger [9],therelated theory 4shortaccountwasgiveninRef.(5) describedbytheLagrangian density 2SeeRef. [6)and references given there“Ref.(7)givesacomprehensive presentation oftherelevantmaterial LsL(4',0A)+5A'" (1.2) 1Gonm th Pn Vb 167
Summary oftheSymenzki Sigma Model paper.
a) Probably IshouldnothavereadthisthinginasmichdetailasIdid,butitwesfilled with interesting manipulations. Mymotivation for reading this paper was simply
that Iwas reading the source papers for Callan Symanzik equations, and the Symanzkk
paper said itwas taking its notation from this Symanzik paper.
This paper ismainly interested inthe subject ofrenormalization inthe presence
ofSSB,something Idonotwanttogetintonow.Thetool Sym.usesinthisdiscussion
isthe scale Ward identities like those general onges (for any conserved current) that
Isawderived intheCCJpaper. These Ward identities arestatements about theG”
greens functions andtheir relation toVEVTOP with divergence ofthe conserved current
inside, ie, the same type ofequation Callen used inhis paper inthe special case of
scale symmetry.
SoIdont really know howthis tool isused, butfwasinterested toseehowyou
can restate the Ward identities intedrms offirst the generating functional G[J], and
alsointermsoftheproper vertex generating functional [A].Thesetransformed
statements ofthe Ward identities get fancy names like Kazes-Rivers identities.
The connection ofthis tool toits work is, Ithink, that the sigma type models
break their invariance byaterm linear inthe field (you can think either ofscale
@_ wreaking somehow, bytmainly breaking ofCACtogetPOAC). Thislinear "signa" term
looks just like asource term, and this source term you recall isthe basis ofthe
_functional approach. Sosomehow the functional approach gets used toshow rénormalizability.
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PapeRevinamitSsSomegeneralproperitsofpra-Fermifedtheoy,|SmallDistance Behaviour inFieldTheory &~ : 14.——Wavefunctions ofidentical particles.Ann.Phy d Ce i q icalparticles. Ann,Phys.St,337(1968) andPower Countin; 15,Wey,HiTheclassic!groups,Princeton University PresPrint1946, 6 |K.Symanzik q
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1.2000 Hamburg 5,Luruper Chau Abstract, Forinfinitesimal changes ofvertexfunctions underiniitesimal variation ‘*verChaussee189]aenormalized parameters, linearcombinations arefoundsuchthatthenetinfinitesimal 4Rangesofallvertexfunctions arenegligible relative tothosefonctions themselves at /bngemomentainallordersofrenormalized perturbation theory.Theresultinglinearfirstfeceracta! differential equations fortheasymptotic forms ofthevertex fonctions are,‘quantumelectrodynamics, solvedintermsofoneuniversalfactionofonevariableand {fectunction ofonevariable foreach vertex function whereby, incontrast tothe renormal-nongrouptreatmentofthisproblem,thuniversalfunctioniobtainedfromnonasympto- .feeonsiderationsArelationtothebreakingofscaleinvarianceinrenormalizabetheories ‘ ieseibe, :
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‘Thesmall distance behaviour ofGreen’s andvertex functions in ,
renormalizable quantum field theories hasbeen extensively studied in :
formal way viatherenormalization group (1,2]and, with equivalent .
results, some other approaches [8,9].Hereweofferanalternativeap- ‘ proach tothesame problem, which appears toberather more direct ‘
itleads toformulas that areexact and become theusual asymptotic
ones upon a,inprinciple controllable, neglect.
Westudy theeffectofinsertingoneextramassvertex,orageneralized }mass vertex inthesense ofWilson [3],into allFeynman diagrams for
allvertex functions, (Such vertices aredefined asthose forwhich the
simofthemass dimensions ofthecomposing fields, ascalar and the
electromagnetic field having dimension one, aspinor field dimension
: +|three half, aderivative dimension one, islessthan four, e.g,two fora
salar mass vertex andthree foraspinor mass vertex.) Bysuch insertion, i
thesuperficial divergence Dofthecorresponding Feynman integral is \
reduced? (e.g,bytwoandbyone,respectively, forascalar andaspinor |
massvertex).Reduction ofthesuperficial divergence, however, results |indecrease ofthelarge-momentum behaviour bythecorresponding
‘ power ofanoverall scale factor’. This relation between dimension of
See, eg, Ref. [2]p.321; theindex «(G) wecall D.Also ibid,p.341,
16Commun.mathPhys,Vol16 y— |
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equations like i.17 ofthis paver; derivatives are with respect tothe "parameters"
ofthe theory, mass, coupling constant. Recall that Callen showed the need for the
extra coupling constant derivative not normally included inascaling enalysis (ie,
ascale invariance analysis, eg, the scale-Ward identities ofCCJ). Onthe other hand
Gellmenn Low got their asymptotic forms for greens functions from the global renorm
group equations like d=ddstuff, same asinBS.
The difference here isthat Symanzik derives his equations using the functional
methods. Insection Iheconsiders gandendsupwith theusual Callen ~Symznzik
equation. The key ingredient isrealizing that certain objects have degree Dpositive
andthis allows you(requires you) todefine various parameters like gandm.These
then appears inthe CSequations.
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ofthe greens functions, and you see the deviation from simply naive scaling behavior,
de, thelogs. Later papers atthis point combine with Wilson toexpalain scaling
results at SLAC.
6 Nextsection repeats everything forQEDratherthan#4.]" Appandix Iguess shows howthenaive scale invariance predictions arewrong.
Atthe moment this paper istoo technical for me. Iwould rather get back to
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Summary oftheGell-Mann Low papers
‘ 8Byfiddling around with dimensional analysis, they come upwith certain "renorm|
alization groupequations" whicharenotofthedifferential "CallanSymansik" form i
but which instead ere the global Z=Z.Z form, where the cutoff papameter and momentum
appears asarguements. Seeeg(3.9). Aleter section ofthis paper actually uses two
separate cutoff parameters sothe multiplication equations are alittle messier.
You cannot completely solve these renorm group equations, but you can learn
something about the form ofthe solution, inthe sense ofKNO scaling say. You learn
(asseems reasonable frommiltiplication idea) thet S(p) propagator goes asapower(P*)”
butyoucannot compute n(later Ithink AFboys shown howyoumight compute n).Just
how you solve the R-group equations toget this general power form isdiscussed inan
appendix.
Obviously, ifyouknow this "form ofsolution", youknow something about thelarge p®
behavior ofthefunction Z(p). Since aZscales etoe,,youinprimciple arelearing
about €,-Inother words, given thephysical charge e,bylearning about thelarge p*
behavior ofZ(p) youcanlearn about e,.That wasthemain interest ofthis paper: just
exactly what isthe "bare charge", the charge you see atsmall distances, high energy.
o) The"scaleformofthesolutions" canbereformulated asanintegralstatement(5.9) .This statements contains functions PSI which islater tobecalled the BETA
function. Here isthe important fact: ifthis function has azero for finite argument,
sayX5ythenthelarge k*behavior isdescribed byafinite Z(called d),andhence
the bare charge isfinite. Ifthere are nozeros ofthe function sSPI, then the bare
charge isinifite.
The authors are not able tostate which isinfact the case. Ithink even today 1978
the answer tothis question isunknown.
So, tosummarize, this paper hwas two important contents: first, ithas golbal renorm
group equations ofthe type you now see inBogo Shirkov and Bjorken Drell. Second, it
shows the "solution" ofthese equations interms afaBETA function whose zeros have
the significance that thehigh-energy charge "(bare charge) can befinite andnot
inifite. Later welearn that in@NAGT you have asymptotic freedom which means that
the high-energy charge isinfact zero.
This paper does not contain differentiel R-group equations ofthe CZtype, nor
does itsay anything about scale invariance orPCAC orconserve dcurrents etc. Their
Gwin interest wassaithQEDandwhbther e,isorisnotafinite number. Afterall,thiswas written in 195).
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Comment: This isthe paper which ley dormant for 15years and then led into asymptotic
.freedom via the renorm group equations. Authors are ofcourse interested inQED only.
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1,Introduction. What isthe true pobentiel between two charges? Asweimow, itis
the PTofthe photon propagator and will thus contain effects from the vacuum
polarization graph. The finite parts ofthe vacpole effects are shown in1.3 as
acertain 5/6 andsoon.There isadivergent piece also, ie, asyou take r=0
“ .*yougetalogdivergent piece. Thebracketed factor isthenjust25%andthisis
its usual log divergence. Ineffect, (1.3) is2computation ofthe bare charge
interms ofthe (Observed and finite) renormalized charge. But only toafinite order
inperturbation theory. The authors are wondering this: just what isthe bare charge
e,toellorders ofperturbation theory? Isitreally infinite? They have this nice
way ofvisuelizing your measurement ofthe bare charge: you probe small. distances so
you getthrough the polarization cloud. Asyou really: getinthere, you seethebare
charge ey. Interesting howtheword "bare" ieused but,this picture notusually
conjuredupbyme.* : fo) Asanaside, they quote that. QEDrenormalization was proved in1949-1951 by.
Dyson, Salam and Ward. o
2.Representations forthePropagators. Basically thevarious Z'saredefined. Dp"
Astheunrenormelized-but—full photon propagator, thething thatwillhaveZ,in
its numerator’sttherenormalization pointwhichisp=0.ThenDggigwhatwewould
call the renormalized propagator, see (2.2). Certain integral representations for
25-1and2571aregiven, Ithink these arecal@ed Kellen reps, nodoubt based on
uniterity somehow. Acomment ismade about photon mass renormalization end how you
have tothrow away the big quadratic divergent term.
3.QEDignoring photon propsgator renormalizatitn,eie, with 2,1. °Suppose you
compute Zp You canuse aFeynmen cutoff onthephoton prop sothat electron self-
energy perts erefinite inthecutoff. Bvaluting@(e) with renormed charge ey,
ifyoulook near p=myoucangetZp,andifyoulook forlarge pyougetsome result
asshown in(3.5). Again, just’ afewterms in’perturbation series for these quantities.
Equation(3.9)showshowthenumerators oftheunrenormed andrenormedphuknxpelectron © props are related inacertain Limit: cutoff.MGT.p.MGP.m. You notice thet the
renormalized propagators numerator Sgisafunction ofp/manddoes nothave problems
involving thecutoff. This thing isfinite. Ofcourse 25isfunction ofX/m
andtheunremormed prop isfunction ofYe,where mis neglected. This equation
(3.9) isthekind ofrennormalization-group ratio-style equation Ihave senn in
BSand BDand elsewhere. Roughly itcays that the UVdivergence ofthe unrenorn
propisallcontained inZ.Asyoumight guess, theonlysolution thatequation
(3.9) canhave isapower solution (ie,arepofthemultiplication group). thus,
inthispartial theory youfindthetZ)isaconstant Atimes(S/#t)™ where n
issome power. Ie,inperturbation theory you ereonly getting afewterms whéch
arelogs, butthey seem toalladduptoapower (afamilar happening). Then you
conclude that thefull electron propagator must behave as2power ofp2/m@, andtheb
usingtheWardidentity youcanlearnthebehavior ofthevertex.
Ithink basically this isjust dimensionality arguments atwork. Equation (3.9)
arises merely because youknow what each function candepend on.So,using the
renormalization group’argument, youcanin-effect compute theformofthefull
propagetor ,although thé little power nisnot so-computed. That was probably the
reason Gell-mann Low stfor awhile: noway tocompute n.
“Notice, bythewey} that there arenodifferential renormalization group
equations in’this paper. There seems asyettobenomention ofa"renormalization
point" inthesense ofpofPagels review. Butthere isavague idea: (look at
(3.9) that youcancompensate foracharnge inthecutoff ®bychanging 2p(bychanging thecharge...). Ie,thinkofsg=s/z9.Thisratiohastobeindependent e
ofthe cutoff because itgives the finite, renormelizaed prop. Ithink-it isthis
same idea which decomes the differential equation later on.
ij.Ward's Method used asacutoff. Thevertex Dyson equation iswritten down (and
Dyson given credit fordefining the1piobjects, Ithink). Then these equations ere
"subtracted" inacertain wayh which causes theunrenormed SpaND Dppropagators
tobenormalized (ie,unitresidue) stpoints f=\andkX. Thus, although they
donot use the term "renormalization points", they are ineffect choosing independent
renormalization points for the two basic propagators ofthe theory. This then
quickly leads toequations like (4.7). This equation relates the originel divergent
functicn Sp'(e,). totheZo(% X).andtheSp(d,%) +Ie,foranyparticular value
ofthepairXs thisletter object isthefinite renormalized: propagator. There is
sort ofadouble renormalization group here ,twofloating parameters. Now (4.7)
isjust (4.7) with these parameters attheir usual values (ie, theusual renorm
points used inQED). Nowifyoudivide (4.7) by(4.7'), then theoriginal infinite
ordivergent function cancels out, andtheratio ofthetwoZp's is.called 25,thus
yielding equation (4.7)". Thisequation tellsyouineffect howyoucandeform oo)
from the"stendard” renormalized propagator Spy with itscharge e;toanother
prop that isafinite distance awey, sotospeak.
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One might refer tothis little triad ofequations astheRenormalizetion Group
C)_emstions forGED,Mext,theygoontorewrite theseequations intermsofthenumerator functions only. Notice that25!asanumber isthenumerator ofthe
standard finite function Spqevaluated attherenorm pointf=\.Thusyou
endupwith thesetoffunctional equations (4.19) through (4.20). There seem to
be4,functions and two parameters e;-
5.Asymptotic Behavior ofQEDPropagators. Using dimensional arguments, ourthree
renorm group equations arecast into theform (5.3) through (5.5). NowIhave to
golearn how the “solve "these things. This isappendix Bsowait. For now just
look atthe solution: itislike KNO sceling: the function d,=photon prop numerator
=F(z)where 2=(k2/m2) xsomeunknown function ofe;7. Asyoutakek?/m? toinf
in(5.6), youareineffect computing thebare charge, asshown in(5.8). So,suppose
F(2) =finite value aszgoes toinf.; then the thepty has afinite bare charge,
which depends onthe function Fbut not atallonthe number ey. Onthe other hand
perhaps F(z) =inf asz-inf, inwhich case there isaninfinite bare charge, this
iscase (a), which wemight nowcall UVSlavery (coupling grows without limit as
yougotohigh energy). Perhaps asaspecial case ofcase (b)youwill have eg
fo} approaches 0.ThisisAsymptotic Freedom. WenowknowthatthisdeesnothappeninQED since itisabelian. Probably there isafinite UVcoupling constant for
QED, which may befound innew HEphoton experiaents. See Pagels review page 161.
In(5.9) they present analternate form of(5.6) solution totheRGequations.
Here the unknown functions are qandA and itisclémed that you cam compute these
inperturbation theory (whereas youcould notforFandJoftheother solution).
Look now atthe form (5.9). Suppose the RHS diverges only asthe upper endpoint
goes toinf. This might bethecase iffunction 4{x) never goes through zero.
Inthis caseyouwould have that k*/m@-» ©ase9-700 sothisisourfriend Case
(a). However, suppose (x) hasazero somewhere atsome finite x=x,. Then youare
getting k2/n@ corresponding toe,=somefinite value, andthis iscase (b).
Thus, (x) must betodays BETA function. Its zeros determine the positions
ofthe UVvalues emight take. Somehow afuture author isgoing toredo all this
stuff using the differentiel equation approach.
Appendix A: Derives the Kallen-type representations for the Z's, not too relevent.
Apoendix B: Shows howtosolve the renormalization group equations. Iwill look at
8 thisdiscussion leterifneedbe.Itisallsitting there.