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Phys. Rev. D 34, 3698–3706 (1986)

Hadamard and minimal renormalizations

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Mario A. Castagnino
Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, CC 67 Suc 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina and Instituto de Fisica de Rosario, Av Pellegrini 250, 2000 Rosario, Argentina

Edgard Gunzig and Pascal Nardone
Pool de Physique, Faculte des Sciences, Campus de la Plaine (CP 238), Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium

Juan P. Paz
Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, CC 67 Suc 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Received 15 May 1986; published in the issue dated 15 December 1986

A common language is introduced to study two, well-known, different methods for the renormalization of the energy-momentum tensor of a scalar neutral quantum field in curved space-time. Different features of the two renormalizations are established and compared.

© 1986 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.34.3698
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.34.3698
PACS:
11.10.Gh, 03.70.+k