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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.

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@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

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