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Main Authors: Chavda, Ameya, McLoughlin, Daniel, Mizera, Sebastian, Staunton, John
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10613
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author Chavda, Ameya
McLoughlin, Daniel
Mizera, Sebastian
Staunton, John
author_facet Chavda, Ameya
McLoughlin, Daniel
Mizera, Sebastian
Staunton, John
contents We set up a bootstrap problem for renormalization. Working in the massless four-dimensional O$(N)$ model and the $λϕ^4$ theory, we prove that unitarity leads to all-loop recursion relations between coefficients of scattering amplitudes with different multiplicities. These turn out to be equivalent to the identities imposed by renormalization of the coupling and the wavefunction through subleading logarithmic order, except with different initial conditions. Matching the initial conditions thus fixes the beta function and wavefunction anomalous dimension to these orders. We explain how to connect this new on-shell renormalization picture with the standard renormalized perturbation theory, highlighting a rich interplay between finiteness, dimensional regularization, and unitarity cuts.
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spellingShingle The Unitary Architecture of Renormalization
Chavda, Ameya
McLoughlin, Daniel
Mizera, Sebastian
Staunton, John
High Energy Physics - Theory
We set up a bootstrap problem for renormalization. Working in the massless four-dimensional O$(N)$ model and the $λϕ^4$ theory, we prove that unitarity leads to all-loop recursion relations between coefficients of scattering amplitudes with different multiplicities. These turn out to be equivalent to the identities imposed by renormalization of the coupling and the wavefunction through subleading logarithmic order, except with different initial conditions. Matching the initial conditions thus fixes the beta function and wavefunction anomalous dimension to these orders. We explain how to connect this new on-shell renormalization picture with the standard renormalized perturbation theory, highlighting a rich interplay between finiteness, dimensional regularization, and unitarity cuts.
title The Unitary Architecture of Renormalization
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10613