Friday, September 11, 2015

quantum field theory - How can perturbativity survive renormalization?


The most usual way to renormalize quantum field theories is by re-writing the Lagrangian in terms of physical (finite) parameters plus counter-terms. Take λϕ4 theory for instance:


L=12(μϕ)2m22ϕ2λ4!ϕ4+LCT,


LCT=δZ2(μϕ)2δm2ϕ2δλ4!ϕ4.


All parameters with δ in LCT are divergent quantities. Then what we do is to treat everything in LCT as interactions and calculate it perturbatively.


My question is: how can we do that? Considering that the "couplings" in this case (δZ, δm and δλ) are huge numbers?




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