Dogmas of effective field theory: scheme dependence, fundamental parameters, and the many faces of the Higgs naturalness principle

DOI10.1007/S10701-021-00510-4zbMath1499.81091OpenAlexW3214876312MaRDI QIDQ2062521

Joshua Rosaler

Publication date: 27 December 2021

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-021-00510-4

zbMATH Keywords

cutoffquantum field theoryrenormalization grouprenormalizationeffective field theorynaturalness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Physics (00A79)

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