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arxiv: nucl-th/0511020 · v3 · submitted 2005-11-07 · ⚛️ nucl-th · hep-ph· hep-th

Wilsonian RG and Redundant Operators in Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theory

classification ⚛️ nucl-th hep-phhep-th
keywords redundantoperatorstheoryeffectivefieldwilsoniananalysisoff-shell
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In a Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) analysis, redundant operators, which may be eliminated by using field redefinitions, emerge naturally. It is therefore important to include them. We consider a nonrelativisitic effective theory (the so-called ``pionless'' Nuclear Effective Field Theory) as a concrete example and show that the off-shell amplitudes cannot be renormalized if the redundant operators are not included. The relation between the theories with and without such redundant operators is established in the low-energy expansion. We perform a Wilsonian RG analysis for the \textit{off-shell} scattering amplitude in the theory with the redundant operator.

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