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Complete set of essential parameters of an effective theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-18 v3

Abstract

The present paper continues the series [V. V. Vereshagin, True self-energy function and reducibility in effective scalar theories, Phys. Rev. D 89, 125022 (2014); A. Vereshagin and V. Vereshagin, Resultant parameters of effective theory, Phys. Rev. D 69, 025002 (2004); K. Semenov-Tian-Shansky, A. Vereshagin, and V. Vereshagin, S-matrix renormalization in effective theories, Phys. Rev. D 73, 025020 (2006)] devoted to the systematic study of effective scattering theories. We consider matrix elements of the effective Lagrangian monomials (in the interaction picture) of arbitrary high dimension D and show that the full set of corresponding coupling constants contains parameters of both kinds: essential and redundant. Since it would be pointless to formulate renormalization prescriptions for redundant parameters, it is necessary to select the full set of the essential ones. This is done in the present paper for the case of the single scalar field.

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@article{arxiv.1704.01976,
  title  = {Complete set of essential parameters of an effective theory},
  author = {M. V. Ioffe and V. V. Vereshagin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.01976},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, the final journal version