Abstract

The freedom in choosing finite renormalizations in quantum field theories (QFT) is characterized by a set of parameters $\{c_i \}, i = 1 ..., n >...$, which specify the renormalization prescriptions used for the calculation of physical quantities. For the sake of simplicity, the case of a single $c$ is selected and chosen mass-independent if masslessness is not realized, this with the aim of expressing the effect of an infinitesimal change in $c$ on the computed observables. This change is found to be expressible in terms of an equation involving a vector field $V$ on the action's space $M$ (coordinates x). This equation is often referred to as ``evolution equation'' in physics. This vector field generates a one-parameter (here $c$) group of diffeomorphisms on $M$. Its flow $\sigma_c (x)$ can indeed be shown to satisfy the functional equation $$ \sigma_{c+t} (x) = \sigma_c (\sigma_t (x)) \equiv \sigma_c \circ \sigma_t $$ $$\sigma_0 (x) = x,$$ so that the very appearance of $V$ in the evolution equation implies at once the Gell-Mann-Low functional equation. The latter appears therefore as a trivial consequence of the existence of a vector field on the action's space of renormalized QFT.

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