Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2005-02-28
JHEP 0507 (2005) 077
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
38 pages, 1 figure; v2: more explanatory comments and references; appeared in JHEP
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/07/077
Certain power-counting non-renormalizable theories, including the most general self-interacting scalar fields in four and three dimensions and fermions in two dimensions, have a simplified renormalization structure. For example, in four-dimensional scalar theories, 2n derivatives of the fields, n>1, do not appear before the nth loop. A new kind of expansion can be defined to treat functions of the fields (but not of their derivatives) non-perturbatively. I study the conditions under which these theories can be consistently renormalized with a reduced, eventually finite, set of independent couplings. I find that in common models the number of couplings sporadically grows together with the order of the expansion, but the growth is slow and a reasonably small number of couplings is sufficient to make predictions up to very high orders. Various examples are solved explicitly at one and two loops.
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