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Renormalization of the spectral action for the Yang-Mills system

Mathematical Physics 2011-04-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

We establish renormalizability of the full spectral action for the Yang-Mills system on a flat 4-dimensional background manifold. Interpreting the spectral action as a higher-derivative gauge theory, we find that it behaves unexpectedly well as far as renormalization is concerned. Namely, a power counting argument implies that the spectral action is superrenormalizable. From BRST-invariance of the one-loop effective action, we conclude that it is actually renormalizable as a gauge theory.

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@article{arxiv.1101.4804,
  title  = {Renormalization of the spectral action for the Yang-Mills system},
  author = {Walter D. van Suijlekom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.4804},
  year   = {2011}
}

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6 pages; 4 figures; minor corrections