On Determining the Running Coupling from the Effective Action
High Energy Physics - Theory
2012-10-02 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The conformal anomaly has provided an expression for the effective action of gauge theories in the presence of a strong background field in terms of the running coupling constant. We exploit this result to find a novel expansion for the running coupling.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1206.6096,
title = {On Determining the Running Coupling from the Effective Action},
author = {D. G. C. McKeon and A. Patrushev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6096},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
6+3 pages, discussion extended, references added, typos fixed