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Coupling running through the Looking-Glass of dimensional Reduction

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The dimensional reduction, in a form of transition from four to two dimensions, was used in the 90s in a context of HE Regge scattering. Recently, it got a new impetus in quantum gravity where it opens the way to renormalizability and finite short-distance behavior. We consider a QFT model gφ4g\,\varphi^4\, with running coupling defined in both the two domains of different dimensionality; the \gbar(Q2)\gbar(Q^2)\, evolutions being duly conjugated at the reduction scale QM.\,Q\sim M. Beyond this scale, in the deep UV 2-dim region, the running coupling does not increase any more. Instead, it {\it slightly decreases} and tends to a finite value \gbar2()<\gbar2(M2)\gbar_2(\infty) \,< \, \gbar_2(M^2)\, from above. As a result, the global evolution picture looks quite peculiar and can propose a base for the modified scenario of gauge couplings behavior with UV fixed points provided by dimensional reduction instead of leptoquarks.

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@article{arxiv.1004.1510,
  title  = {Coupling running through the Looking-Glass of dimensional Reduction},
  author = {D. V. Shirkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.1510},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures,Version to match the one which (besides the Appendix) will appear in "Particles and Nuclei (PEPAN), Letters", v.7, No 6(162) 2010 pp 625-631. Slightly edited, one more reference and related numerical estimate added

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