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tsak
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Hi guys, this is my first post.
I recently realized that there is something odd going on with dimensional regularization so I figured I could ask here.
So let's take equation (A.44) in Peskin's book. Now if we set n=1 and d=3-e, this integral is obviously ultraviolet diverging(in fact quadratically). On the other hand if we believe what dimensional regularization is telling us, this integral behaves like [tex]\Gamma(-1/2+e/2)[/tex]. The gamma function only has poles for negative integer and zero values of it's argument, so in this case the integral is perfectly finite.
I have been looking up old papers trying to figure out why this is happening. I believe that there must be some kind of a problem with analytically continuing the function but I'm not quite sure what this problem is.
Anyone have any ideas?
Also if we consider a massless [tex]\phi^4[/tex] theory, the tadpole diagram goes like:
[tex]\int \frac{d^d q}{(2 \pi)^d)} \frac{1}{k^2}[/tex] In d=4 this is infinite again but dimensional analysis gives us zero. I have been doing some reading on this and it seems that if we employ a more sophisticated dimensional regularization procedure, we can prove this to be zero. We need to introduce a function that will allow us to exchange the integrals in the Schwinger trick.
I recently realized that there is something odd going on with dimensional regularization so I figured I could ask here.
So let's take equation (A.44) in Peskin's book. Now if we set n=1 and d=3-e, this integral is obviously ultraviolet diverging(in fact quadratically). On the other hand if we believe what dimensional regularization is telling us, this integral behaves like [tex]\Gamma(-1/2+e/2)[/tex]. The gamma function only has poles for negative integer and zero values of it's argument, so in this case the integral is perfectly finite.
I have been looking up old papers trying to figure out why this is happening. I believe that there must be some kind of a problem with analytically continuing the function but I'm not quite sure what this problem is.
Anyone have any ideas?
Also if we consider a massless [tex]\phi^4[/tex] theory, the tadpole diagram goes like:
[tex]\int \frac{d^d q}{(2 \pi)^d)} \frac{1}{k^2}[/tex] In d=4 this is infinite again but dimensional analysis gives us zero. I have been doing some reading on this and it seems that if we employ a more sophisticated dimensional regularization procedure, we can prove this to be zero. We need to introduce a function that will allow us to exchange the integrals in the Schwinger trick.
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