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Vacuum polarization and the geometric phase: Gauge invariance

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

A nonperturbative approach to the vacuum polarization for quantized fermions in external vector potentials is discussed. It is shown that by a suitable choice of counterterms the vacuum polarization phase is both gauge and renormalization independent, within a large class of nonperturbative renormalizations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9702129,
  title  = {Vacuum polarization and the geometric phase: Gauge invariance},
  author = {Jouko Mickelsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9702129},
  year   = {2009}
}

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