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UV/IR scale dependence in a four-derivative scalar field theory

Bob Holdom

hep-tharXiv:2609.04347

Abstract

An analog of the standard renormalization procedure may be useful for four-derivative theories, and we illustrate it with the four-derivative scalar field theory in the m0 limit. The renormalization scale μ appears in momentum-dependent logarithms associated with both UV and IR divergences. At one loop, the on-shell scattering amplitude satisfies an analog Callan--Symanzik equation involving the analog beta functions. These functions are determined from the combined UV and IR pole parts of the 1PI functions.

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