Cohomological analysis of the Epstein-Glaser renormalization

dc.creatorNikolov, Nikolay M.
dc.date2007-12-13
dc.date2007-12-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:49:13Z
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dc.descriptionA cohomological analysis of the renormalization freedom is performed in the Epstein-Glaser scheme on a flat Euclidean space. We study the deviation from commutativity between the renormalization and the action of all linear partial differential operators. It defines a Hochschild 1-cocycle and the renormalization ambiguity corresponds to a nonlinear subset in the cohomology class of this renormalization cocycle. We have shown that the related cohomology spaces can be reduced to de Rham cohomologies of the so called "(ordered) configuration spaces". We have also found cohomological differential equations that exactly determine the renormalization cocycles up to the renormalization freedom. This analysis is a first step towards a new approach for computing renormalization group actions. It can be also naturally extended to manifolds as well as to the case of causal perturbation theory.
dc.description31 pages, Latex. The corrections in version 3 are mostly in Sect. 6 (with unchanged conclusions)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2194
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2194
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/144219
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.titleCohomological analysis of the Epstein-Glaser renormalization
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