Scale Setting for Self-consistent Backgrounds

Abstract

The quest for finding self-consistent background solutions in quantum field theory is closely related to the way one decides to set the renormalization scale $k$. This freedom in the choice of the scale setting can lead to ambiguities and conceptual inconsistencies such as the non-conservation of the stress-energy tensor. In this paper a setting for the "scale-field" is proposed at the level of effective action, which avoids such inconsistencies by construction. The mechanism and its potential is exemplified for scalar ${\varphi }^4$ theory and for Einstein-Hilbert-Maxwell theory.

14 pages, 3 figures

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