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On the treatment of divergent integrals in perturbative quantum field theory

Mathematical Physics 2015-03-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

A simple integral that illustrates the concepts of regularization, subtraction, renormalization and renormalization group employed in perturbative quantum field theory(PQFT) is considered.

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@article{arxiv.1004.5081,
  title  = {On the treatment of divergent integrals in perturbative quantum field theory},
  author = {R. Trinchero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.5081},
  year   = {2015}
}