Finite Quantum Fluctuations About Static Field Configurations
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We develop an unambiguous and practical method to calculate one-loop quantum corrections to the energies of classical time-independent field configurations in renormalizable field theories. We show that the standard perturbative renormalization procedure suffices here as well. We apply our method to a simplified model where a charged scalar couples to a neutral "Higgs" field, and compare our results to the derivative expansion.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9802015,
title = {Finite Quantum Fluctuations About Static Field Configurations},
author = {Edward Farhi and Noah Graham and Peter E. Haagensen and Robert L. Jaffe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9802015},
year = {2009}
}
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16 pp. LaTeX, 3 figs., BoxedEPS