The renormalized locally covariant Dirac field
Jochen Zahn
October 15, 2012
The definition of the locally covariant Dirac field is adapted such that it may be charged under a gauge group and in the presence of generic gauge and Yukawa background fields. We construct renormalized Wick powers and time-ordered products. It is shown that the Wick powers may be defined such that the current and the stress-energy tensor are conserved, and the remaining ambiguity is characterized. We sketch a variant of the background field method that can be used to determine the renormalization group flow at the one loop
level from the nontrivial scaling of Wick powers.
Keywords:
QFT on curved spacetimes, Dirac fields