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Mini-Instantons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is shown that the inhomogeneous saddle points of scale invariant theories make the semiclassical expansion sensitive on the choice of non-renormalizable operators. In particular, the instanton fugacity and the beta function of the two dimensional non-linear sigma model depends on apparently non-renormalizable operators. This represents a non-perturbative breakdown of that concept of universality which is based on low dimensional operators.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9401079,
  title  = {Mini-Instantons},
  author = {Vincenzo Branchina and Janos Polonyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9401079},
  year   = {2007}
}

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25 pg. LPT-93-3