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Dirac Relation and Renormalization Group Equations for Electric and Magnetic Fine Structure Constants

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

The quantum field theory describing electric and magnetic charges and revealing a dual symmetry was developed in the Zwanziger formalism. The renormalization group (RG) equations for both fine structure constants - electric α\alpha and magnetic α~\tilde \alpha - were obtained. It was shown that the Dirac relation is valid for the renormalized α\alpha and α~\tilde \alpha at the arbitrary scale, but these RG equations can be considered perturbatively only in the small region: 0.25<α,α~<10.25 \stackrel{<}{\sim} \alpha, \tilde \alpha \stackrel{<}{\sim} 1 with α~\tilde \alpha given by the Dirac relation: αα~\alpha {\tilde \alpha} = 1/4.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9910101,
  title  = {Dirac Relation and Renormalization Group Equations for Electric and Magnetic Fine Structure Constants},
  author = {L. V. Laperashvili and H. B. Nielsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9910101},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, 4 figures, made corrections of physics after comments from Kim Milton

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