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`Maximal conformality' does not work

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-10-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The so-called "principle of maximal conformality" is ineffective and does nothing to resolve the renormalization-scheme-dependence problem. Some essential facts about that problem are summarized. It is stressed that RG invariance is a symmetry and that any viable method for resolving the scheme-dependence problem should be formulatable in terms of the invariants of that symmetry.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2308.05072,
  title  = {`Maximal conformality' does not work},
  author = {P. M. Stevenson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.05072},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

10 pages, no figures

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