Renormalization-prescription ambiguity in perturbative quantum chromodynamics: Has Stevenson found the solution?
- 15 October 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 26 (8) , 2048-2057
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.26.2048
Abstract
Stevenson has claimed to resolve the renormalization-prescription ambiguity inherent in a truncated perturbative expansion by a principle of minimal sensitivity. This is shown to define an such that its coefficients in the perturbative expansion are in the ratio of the corresponding coefficients of the function, regardless of the physical quantity calculated. Stevenson's principle is then only relevant when the expansion of the function for the optimal makes sense and is then negligibly different from the commonly assumed criterion of fastest apparent convergence, with no greater claim to "optimality."
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