Are there any Landau poles in wavelet-based quantum field theory?

Feb 21, 2023
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  • Phys.Rev.D 108 (2023) 8, 085023
  • Published: Oct 15, 2023
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Following previous work by one of the authors [M. V. Altaisky, Unifying renormalization group and the continuous wavelet transform, Phys. Rev. D 93, 105043 (2016).], we develop a new approach to the renormalization group, where the effective action functional ΓA[ϕ] is a sum of all fluctuations of scales from the size of the system L down to the scale of observation A. It is shown that the renormalization flow equation of the type ΓAlnA=-Y(A) is a limiting case of such consideration, when the running coupling constant is assumed to be a differentiable function of scale. In this approximation, the running coupling constant, calculated at one-loop level, suffers from the Landau pole. In general, when the scale-dependent coupling constant is a nondifferentiable function of scale, the Feynman loop expansion results in a difference equation. This keeps the coupling constant finite for any finite value of scale A. As an example, we consider Euclidean ϕ4 field theory.
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  • RevTeX, 13 pages, 3 eps figures
  • coupling constant: energy dependence
  • effective action
  • pole
  • renormalization
  • Euclidean
  • fluctuation
  • flow
  • Feynman
  • wavelet
  • renormalization group