Renormalizations in holomorphic field theories on Kähler manifolds

Abstract

The divergence of Feynman graph integrals is one of the central issues in the study of perturbative quantum field theories. A rigorous formulation of these integrals usually requires renormalization. In this paper, we prove that the Feynman graph integrals arising from holomorphic field theories on closed real-analytic Kähler manifolds are convergent with respect to heat-kernel renormalization, Cauchy principal value renormalization, and zeta-function renormalization. Moreover, these three renormalization procedures produce the same value. Our proof is based on the theory of wonderful compactifications in algebraic geometry, which provides a geometric understanding of these integrals. As a consequence, we establish a gauge anomaly formula for these graph integrals.

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