Re: Renormalization

Igor Khavkine wrote:
> Yes, you do go back and change the initial axioms and relationships.
> However, you do it in such a way that repeating the same exact steps you
> did before gets you to an integral that is no longer divergent but is
> regulated in a specific way. However, physicists often skip the explicit
> steps of going back and changing the Lagrangian and simply perform
> manipulations directly on the integral expressions. Just because these
> steps are often skipped, does not mean that they are not there
> implicitly.
>
> Igor

If this is the case then you and I are in argreement. This was the
point I was trying to make all along - you should go back and change
the formal structure (in this case the Lagrangian) so that the end
results are derived from the initial formal structure.

Dan Solomon

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