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Renormalization group equation for the vacuum energy of a scalar field in curved space-time

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The renormalization group equation is formulated for the vacuum energy of a scalar field. We calculate the two-loop functions and study the asymptotic behavior of the vacuum energy.

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  1. Tomsk Teacher's College of the Lenin Komsomol, USSR

    I. L. Bukhbinder & S. D. Odintsov

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  1. I. L. Bukhbinder
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 50–55, August, 1983.

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Bukhbinder, I.L., Odintsov, S.D. Renormalization group equation for the vacuum energy of a scalar field in curved space-time. Soviet Physics Journal 26, 721–725 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898882

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