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Renormalization in momentum dependent resummations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

At finite temperature and in non-equilibrium environments we have to resum perturbation theory to avoid infrared divergences. Since resummation shuffles the perturbative orders, renormalizability is a nontrivial issue. In this paper we demonstrate that one can modify any type of resummations -- even if it is momentum dependent, or it resums higher point functions -- in a way that it is renormalizable with the usual zero temperature counterterms. To achieve this goal we reformulate resummation in form of a renormalization scheme. We apply this technique to perform a 2PI resummation in the six dimensional cubic scalar model in equilibrium.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0605071,
  title  = {Renormalization in momentum dependent resummations},
  author = {A. Jakovac},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0605071},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages revtex4, 4 figures included; typos corrected, references added