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Background field method in the Wilson formulation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-07-19 v1

Abstract

A cutoff regularization for a pure Yang-Mills theory is implemented within the background field method keeping explicit the gauge invariance of the effective action. The method has been applied to compute the beta function at one loop order.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0104255,
  title  = {Background field method in the Wilson formulation},
  author = {M. Bonini and E. Tricarico},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0104255},
  year   = {2011}
}

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LaTex 13 pages, 1 figure; to appear in Nucl.Phys.B