The analytical $\mathcal{O}(a^4_s)$ expression for the polarized Bjorken sum rule in the miniMOM scheme and the consequences for the generalized Crewther relation

Abstract

The analytical $\mathcal{O}(a^4_s)$ perturbative QCD expression for the flavour non-singlet contribution to the Bjorken polarized sum rule in the rather applicable at present gauge--dependent $\rm{miniMOM}$ scheme is obtained. For the considered three values of the gauge parameter, namely $\xi=0$ (Landau gauge), $\xi=-1$ (anti--Feynman gauge) and $\xi=-3$ (Stefanis--Mikhailov gauge), the scheme-dependent coefficients are considerably smaller than the gauge-independent $\rm{\overline{MS}}$ results. It is found that the fundamental property of the factorization of the QCD renormalization group $\beta$-function in the generalized Crewther relation, which is valid in the gauge-invariant $\rm{\overline{MS}}$ scheme up to $\mathcal{O}(a^4_s)$-level at least, is unexpectedly valid at the same level in the $\rm{miniMOM}$-scheme for $\xi=0$, and for $\xi=-1$ and $\xi=-3$ in part.