Removal of violations of the Master Ward Identity in perturbative QFT

Abstract

We study the appearance of anomalies of the Master Ward Identity, which is a universal renormalization condition in perturbative QFT. The main insight of the present paper is that any violation of the Master Ward Identity can be expressed as a LOCAL interacting field; this is a version of the well-known Quantum Action Principle of Lowenstein and Lam. Proceeding in a proper field formalism by induction on the order in $\hslash$, this knowledge about the structure of possible anomalies as well as techniques of algebraic renormalization are used to remove possible anomalies by finite renormalizations. As an example the method is applied to prove the Ward identities of the O(N) scalar field model.

arXiv comment51 pages. v2: a few formulations improved, one reference added. v3: a few mistakes corrected and one additional reference. v4: version to be printed in Reviews in Mathematical Physics

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