Background field method in the Wilson formulation

Abstract

A cutoff regularization for a pure Yang-Mills theory is implemented within the background field method keeping explicit the gauge invariance of the effective action. The method has been applied to compute the beta function at one loop order.

LaTex 13 pages, 1 figure; to appear in Nucl.Phys.B

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