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No-Counterterm approach to quantum field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-06-23 v7 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We give a conjectural way for computing the SS-matrix and the correlation functions in quantum field theory beyond perturbation theory. The basic idea seems universal and naively simple: to compute the physical quantities one should consider the functional differential Schrodinger equation (without normal orderings), regularize it, consider the regularized evolution operator in the Fock space from t=T1t=T_1 to t=T2t=T_2, where the interval (T1,T2)(T_1,T_2) contains the support of the interaction cutoff function, remove regularization (without adding counterterms), and tend the interaction cutoff function to a constant. We call this approach to QFT the No-Counterterm approach. We show how to compute the No-Counterterm perturbation series for the ϕ4\phi^4 model in Rd+1R^{d+1}. We give rough estimates which show that some summands of this perturbation series are finite without renormalization (in particular, one-loop integrals for d=3d=3 and all integrals for d6d\ge 6).

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@article{arxiv.1002.0915,
  title  = {No-Counterterm approach to quantum field theory},
  author = {A. V. Stoyanovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0915},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

8 pages, revised version, title changed

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