Recurrent form of the renormalization group relations for the higher-order hadronic vacuum polarization function perturbative expansion coefficients

Abstract

The renormalization group relations for the higher-order hadronic vacuum polarization function perturbative expansion coefficients are studied. The folded recurrent and unfolded explicit forms of such relations are obtained. The explicit expression for the coefficients, which incorporate the contributions of the $\pi^{2}$-terms in the perturbative expansion of the R-ratio of electron-positron annihilation into hadrons, is derived at an arbitrary loop level. The obtained results can be employed as an independent crosscheck of the higher-order perturbative calculations of the hadronic vacuum polarization function and in the studies of the renormalization scale setting in the relevant physical observables.