Published June 15, 1984 | Version v1
Journal article

In what schemes can QCD perturbation series converge

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

Description

We extend our earlier results and are able to prove that the PMS (principle of minimal sensitivity) and FAC (fastest apparent convergence) procedures for selecting the renormalization scheme will yield a finite limit, if and only if the perturbation series is convergent in the schemes with all scheme-dependent β-function coefficients equal to zero (''zero schemes''). In this case our modified PMS procedure (PMS) will yield the same finite limit as PMS and FAC. In the more likely and interesting case of a divergent although Borel-summable series in these ''zero schemes'', PMS serves to Borel sum the series order by order. An explicit expression for the scheme invariants rho/sub i/ is derived and some new results concerning them are discussed

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
29
Journal Issue
12
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
2884-2890
ISSN
0556-2821