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Wilsonian RG and Redundant Operators in Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theory

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-11 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In a Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) analysis, redundant operators, which may be eliminated by using field redefinitions, emerge naturally. It is therefore important to include them. We consider a nonrelativisitic effective theory (the so-called ``pionless'' Nuclear Effective Field Theory) as a concrete example and show that the off-shell amplitudes cannot be renormalized if the redundant operators are not included. The relation between the theories with and without such redundant operators is established in the low-energy expansion. We perform a Wilsonian RG analysis for the \textit{off-shell} scattering amplitude in the theory with the redundant operator.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0511020,
  title  = {Wilsonian RG and Redundant Operators in Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theory},
  author = {Koji Harada and Kenzo Inoue and Hirofumi Kubo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0511020},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages in two columns, no figures; corrected typos, a version to be published in PLB