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Renormalization of Wilson Operators in Minkowski space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We make some comments on the renormalization of Wilson operators (not just vacuum -expectation values of Wilson operators), and the features which arise in Minkowski space. If the Wilson loop contains a straight light-like segment, charge renormalization does not work in a simple graph-by-graph way; but does work when certain graphs are added together. We also verify that, in a simple example of a smooth loop in Minkowski space, the existence of pairs of points which are light-like separated does not cause any extra divergences.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9601122,
  title  = {Renormalization of Wilson Operators in Minkowski space},
  author = {A. Andraši and J. C. Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9601122},
  year   = {2009}
}

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plain tex, 8 pages, 5 figures not included