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arxiv: 1107.0870 · v1 · pith:2DSHV3BAnew · submitted 2011-07-05 · ✦ hep-th

Classical Dimensional Transmutation and Confinement

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords classicalasymptoticchargesdimensionalenergyequationlambdatransmutation
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We observe that probing certain classical field theories by external sources uncovers the underlying renormalization group structure, including the phenomenon of dimensional transmutation, at purely-classical level. We perform this study on an example of $\lambda\phi^{4}$ theory and unravel asymptotic freedom and triviality for negative and positives signs of $\lambda$ respectively. We derive exact classical $\beta$ function equation. Solving this equation we find that an isolated source has an infinite energy and therefore cannot exist as an asymptotic state. On the other hand a dipole, built out of two opposite charges, has finite positive energy. At large separation the interaction potential between these two charges grows indefinitely as a distance in power one third.

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