https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11986-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
On the renormalization of non-polynomial field theories
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, 95123, Catania, Italy
2
INFN, Sezione di Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, 95123, Catania, Italy
3
Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e Struttura della Materia, Catania, Italy
Received:
12
July
2023
Accepted:
28
August
2023
Published online:
11
September
2023
A class of scalar models with non-polynomial interaction, which naturally admits an analytical resummation of the series of tadpole diagrams is studied in perturbation theory. In particular, we focus on a model containing only one renormalizable coupling that appear as a multiplicative coefficient of the squared field. A renormalization group analysis of the Green functions of the model shows that these are only approximated solutions of the flow equations, with errors proportional to powers of the coupling, therefore smaller in the region of weak coupling. The final output of the perturbative analysis is that the renormalized model is non-interacting with finite mass and vanishing vertices or, in an effective theory limited by an ultraviolet cut-off, the vertices are suppressed by powers of the inverse cut-off. The relation with some non-polynomial interactions derived long ago, as solutions of the linearized functional renormalization group flow equations, is also discussed.
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