Isolation and Expulsion of Divergences in Quantum Field Theory

Abstract

Divergences that arise in the quantization of scalar quantum field models by means of a lattice-space functional integration may be attributed to a single integration variable, and this fact is demonstrated by showing that if the integrand for that single integration variable is appropriately changed, then a perturbation expansion becomes order-by-order finite and divergence free. The paper concludes with a brief review of a current proposal of how an auxiliary, nonclassical potential added to the lattice action of a relativistic scalar field quantization may automatically render an analogous change of the integrand, and thus may lead, as well, to nontrivial and divergence-free results.