Manuscript XVI-L@1 · XVI-L.tex · lemma · 35081099
Lemma: Differentiability in the scale
L.6 Renormalization scale · lines 1184–1222 · proof included or linked
XVI-L@1#lem:Ldiffmu, XVI-L@1#eq:L-Amu, XVI-L@1#eq:L-Amu-exp
For each the map is as a -valued function of . Writing
one has , and if then
for coefficients depending smoothly on . Moreover is linear, and every constant-coefficient relation in implies .
Proof. Smoothness of the projections. The map is into (chain rule; compact supports remain in a fixed large ball for in any compact subinterval of ). Hence is into invertible matrices (unitriangular with smooth entries), is into , and is as a map into continuous operators on .
{Differentiability of .} On , formula (eq:L-RLmu-formula) gives . The right side is in for each test , so is in the weak topology of ; the distributional derivative exists and is given by differentiating under the pairing. Linearity in is immediate from (eq:L-RLmu-formula).
Contact expansion. Differentiate (eq:L-scale-diff) in at fixed , or compare by Theorem thm:Lscale with reference : the difference quotient is a combination of with , and the limit retains that form, yielding (eq:L-Amu-exp). Support at is immediate.
Coherence. If as an element of , then of that element vanishes for every (linearity), so its -derivative vanishes on it.
Displayed formulas in this passage
XVI-L@1#eq:L-Amu · line 1188
XVI-L@1#eq:L-Amu-exp · line 1196
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- section: L.6 Renormalization scale
- definition: Definition: Scale-dependent extension
- proposition: Proposition: Recovery of at the reference scale
- theorem: Theorem: First scale theorem
- section: L.6 Renormalization scale
- remark: Remark: Prescription dependence versus scale-variation coefficients; not a physical beta function
- proposition: Proposition: Homogeneous contact form of the scale-variation coefficients
- remark: Remark: Stretch: explicit nonzero scaling residue