CONSISTENCY CONDITIONS FOR 4-D REGULARIZATIONS

Abstract

From the study of well-known divergent amplitudes we deduce three consistency conditions which are necessary and sufficient to eliminate ambiguities and symmetry violations. The conditions relate divergent integrals of the same degree of divergence and are automatically satisfied within the context of dimensional regularization. We show how the deduced consistency conditions can be satisfied in four-dimensional regularizations. An important conclusion of the present study is the possibility of working with 4-D regularization schemes which preserve the virtues of dimensional regularization avoiding, however, its restrictions.