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Maintaining Gauge Symmetry in Renormalizing Chiral Gauge Theories
It is known that the scheme of Breitenlohner and Maison (BM) in
dimensional regularization requires finite counter-term renormalization to
restore gauge symmetry and implementing this finite renormalization in
practical calculation is a daunting task even at 1-loop order. In this paper,
we show that there is a simple and straightforward method to obtain these
finite counter terms by using the rightmost scheme in which we
move all the matrices to the rightmost position before
analytically continuing the dimension. For any 1-loop Feynman diagram, the
difference between the amplitude regularized in the rightmost
scheme and the amplitude regularized in the BM scheme can be easily calculated.
The differences for all 1-loop diagrams in the chiral Abelian-Higgs gauge
theory and in the chiral non-Abelian gauge theory are shown to be the same as
the amplitudes due to the finite counter terms that are required to restore
gauge symmetry
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