Instanton constraints and renormalization

2005/04/21 by P. M. Glerfoss, N.K. Nielsen, N. K. Nielsen · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Constraint (computer-aided design) #Coupling (piping) #Instanton #Mathematical physics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum field theory #Quantum gravity #Quantum mechanics #Renormalization #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.aop.2005.05.001

published in Annals of Physics 321(2), 331-354 (Elsevier BV) · 29 pages

arxiv created 2005/04/21 · openalex publication_date 2005/06/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2020/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The renormalization is investigated of one-loop quantum fluctuations around a constrained instanton in ϕ⁴-theory with negative coupling. It is found that the constraint should be renormalized also. This indicates that in general only renormalizable constraints are permitted.

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