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In perturbation theory the Green’s functions of composite operators are constructed by applying Bogoliubov’s method of renormalization. Normalization conditions for the composite operators are derived, as well as identities which relate composite operators of different degree.
This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant No. GP-25609.
A preliminary version of the material contained in this paper appeared in W. Zimmermann, Renormalization and Composite Field Operators, in “Lectures on Elementary Particles and Quantum Field Theory” (S. Deser, M. Giisam, and H. Pendlcton, Eds.), 1970 lirandeis Summer Institute in Theoretical Physics, Vol. I, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. (1971).
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Zimmermann, W. (2000). Composite Operators in the Perturbation Theory of Renormalizable Interactions. In: Breitenlohner, P., Maison, D. (eds) Quantum Field Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 558. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44482-3_15
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