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Phys. Rev. D 65, 081701(R) (2002) [5 pages]

Perturbation theory and renormalization group equations

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Daniel F. Litim*
Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Jan M. Pawlowski
Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Universität Erlangen, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany

Received 22 November 2001; published 5 April 2002

We discuss the perturbative expansion of several one loop improved renormalization group equations. It is shown that in general the integrated renormalization group flows fail to reproduce perturbation theory beyond one loop.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.081701
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.081701
PACS:
11.10.Gh, 05.10.Cc

*Email address: Daniel.Litim@cern.ch

Email address: jmp@theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de