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# Renormalization as a functor on bialgebras

## 1. Introduction

The algebraic structure of quantum fields has been thoroughly studied but, until recently, their natural coalgebraic structure has not been exploited. In references  we used the coalgebraic structure of quantum fields to show that quantum groups and Hopf algebras provide an interesting tool for quantum field theory calculations. In , the relation between quantum groups and free scalar fields was presented at an elementary level. In , quantum groups were employed to calculate interacting quantum fields and the coalgebra structure of quantum fields was used to derive general expressions for the time-ordered and operator products. Moreover the cohomology theory of Hopf algebras was found useful to handle time-ordered products. In the present paper, the renormalization of time-ordered products is described in detail.

In , Connes and Kreimer defined a Hopf algebra on Feynman diagrams that describes the renormalization of quantum field theory111The Hopf algebra of Connes-Kreimer belongs to a class of Hopf algebras investigated by Schmitt in 1994 .. A little later, Gracia-Bondia and Lazzarini  defined a Hopf algebra of Feynman diagrams related to the Epstein-Glaser renormalization. Then Pinter  derived the same algebra using partitions of a set of points; her work was the starting point of the present paper. The Hopf algebra of  looks similar to the Connes-Kreimer algebra, but it is actually different because it allows for the renormalization of nonirreducible diagrams, and it works in the configuration space instead of the momentum space. This paper is devoted to a generalization of Pinter’s construction to any bialgebra $``$. In the first section, we consider the algebra $`T(T()^+)`$, where $`T()^+`$ is the nonunital subalgebra $`_{n1}T^n()`$ of the tensor algebra $`T()=_{n0}T^n()`$. We describe how the coproduct of $``$ extends freely to define bialgebra structures on $`T()`$ and $`T(T()^+)`$. These free bialgebras are noncommutative, and are cocommutative if and only if $``$ is cocommutative. We then show that $`T(T()^+)`$ can be equipped with a very different coalgebra structure, making it a graded bialgebra which is neither commutative nor cocommutative, regardless of whether or not $``$ is cocommutative. The abelianization of the bialgebra $`T(T()^+)`$ gives us the commutative bialgebra $`S(T()^+)`$, and $`S(S()^+)`$ is shown to be a subbialgebra of $`S(T()^+)`$. In quantum field applications, the bialgebra which is relevant to renormalization is $`S(S()^+)`$. When $``$ is the Hopf algebra of a commutative group, we define a homomorphism from $`S(S()^+)`$ onto the Faà di Bruno bialgebra, which shows that $`S(S()^+)`$ is a kind of generalization of the algebra of formal diffeomorphisms. Hopf algebras can be obtained from $`T(T()^+)`$ and $`S(S()^+)`$ as quotients by certain biideals. We refer to these Hopf algebras as the noncommutative and commutative Pinter algebra, respectively. All of our constructions are functorial in $``$ and the various mappings between them correspond to natural transformations. We describe the connection between the commutative Pinter algebra and the Connes-Moscovici algebra. Finally, we prove that our construction gives the same results as the standard renormalization procedure for scalar fields.

## 2. The renormalization bialgebra

In all that follows $``$ is a (not necessarily unital) bialgebra over a field of characteristic zero, with product $`\mu _{}`$, coproduct $`\delta _{}`$, and counit $`\epsilon _{}`$. We denote the product of two elements $`x`$, $`y`$ of $``$ by $`xy`$. We write $`T()^+`$ for the subalgebra $`_{n1}T^n()`$ of the tensor algebra $`T()`$, and denote the generators $`x_1\mathrm{}x_n`$ (where $`x_i`$) of the vector space $`T^n()`$ by $`(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)`$; in particular, elements of $`T^1()`$ have the form $`(x)`$, for $`x`$. We use the symbol $``$, rather than $``$, for the product in $`T()`$, so that $`(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)(x_{n+1},\mathrm{},x_{n+m})=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_{n+m})`$. By associativity, we may consider the product $`\mu _{}`$ as a map $`T()^+`$; hence $`\mu _{}(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)=x_1\mathrm{}x_n`$, for all $`(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T^n()`$. We denote the product operation in $`T(T()^+)`$ by juxtaposition, so that $`T^k(T()^+)`$ is generated by the elements $`a_1a_2\mathrm{}a_k`$, where $`a_iT()^+`$. We denote the product of $`a_1,\mathrm{},a_kT()^+`$ in $`T(T()^+)`$ by $`\mathrm{\Pi }_{i=1}^ka_i`$, and we write $`_{i=1}^ka_i`$ for their product in $`T()`$.

### 2.1. The free bialgebra structure on $`T(T()^+)`$

The coproduct $`\delta _{}`$ and counit $`\epsilon _{}`$ extend uniquely to a coproduct and counit on $`T()`$ that are compatible with the multiplication of $`T()`$, thus making $`T()`$ a bialgebra. We remark that this construction ignores completely the algebra structure of $``$; the bialgebra $`T()`$ is in fact the free bialgebra on the underlying coalgebra of $``$. Similarly, the coproduct and counit of the nonunital bialgebra $`T()^+`$ extend to define a free bialgebra structure on $`T(T()^+)`$. We denote the coproduct of both $`T()`$ and $`T(T()^+)`$ by $`\delta `$. Hence, if we use the Sweedler notation $`\delta _{}(x)=x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}x_{\left(2\right)}`$ for the coproduct of $`x`$ in $``$ then, for $`a=(x^1,\mathrm{},x^n)T^n()`$ and $`u=a^1\mathrm{}a^kT^k(T()^+)`$, we have

$$\delta (a)=(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{n})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{n})$$

and

$$\delta (u)=a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{k}a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{k}.$$

The counit is defined by $`ϵ(a)=\epsilon _{}(x^1)\mathrm{}\epsilon _{}(x^n)`$ and $`ϵ(u)=ϵ(a^1)\mathrm{}ϵ(a^k)`$. A similar construction was put forward by Florent Hivert .

For any linear map of vector spaces $`f:VW`$, we denote by $`T(f)`$ the corresponding algebra map $`T(V)T(W)`$, given by $`(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)(f(x_1),\mathrm{},f(x_n))`$, for all $`(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T(V)`$. Note that, in particular, the map $`T(\mu _{}):T(T()^+)T()`$ satisfies

$`T(\mu _{})`$ $`((x_1^1,\mathrm{},x_{r_1}^1)(x_1^2,\mathrm{},x_{r_2}^2)\mathrm{}(x_1^k,\mathrm{},x_{r_k}^k))`$
$`=(\mu _{}(x_1^1,\mathrm{},x_{r_1}^1),\mu _{}(x_1^2,\mathrm{},x_{r_2}^2),\mathrm{},\mu _{}(x_1^k,\mathrm{},x_{r_k}^k))`$
$`=(x_1^1\mathrm{}x_{r_1}^1,x_1^2\mathrm{}x_{r_2}^2,\mathrm{},x_1^k\mathrm{}x_{r_k}^k).`$
### 2.2. Grading $`T(T()^+)`$ by compositions

A composition $`\rho `$ is a (possibly empty) finite sequence of positive integers, usually referred to as the parts of $`\rho `$. We denote by $`\mathrm{}(\rho )`$ the length, that is the number of parts, of $`\rho `$, write $`|\rho |`$ for the sum of the parts, and say that $`\rho `$ is a composition of $`n`$ in the case that $`|\rho |=n`$. We denote by $`C_n`$ the set of all compositions of $`n`$, and by $`C`$ the set $`_{n0}C_n`$ of all compositions of all nonnegative integers. For example, $`\rho =(1,3,1,2)`$ is a composition of $`7`$ having length $`4`$. The first four $`C_n`$ are $`C_0=\{e\}`$, where $`e`$ is the empty composition, $`C_1=\{(1)\}`$, $`C_2=\{(1,1),(2)\}`$ and $`C_3=\{(1,1,1),(1,2),(2,1),(3)\}`$. The total number of compositions of $`n`$ is $`2^{n1}`$, the number of compositions of $`n`$ of length $`k`$ is $`\frac{(n1)!}{(k1)!(nk)!}`$ and the number of compositions of $`n`$ with precisely $`\alpha _i`$ occurrences of the integer $`i`$, for all $`i`$ (and hence $`i\alpha _i=n`$) is $`\frac{(\alpha _1+\mathrm{}+\alpha _n)!}{\alpha _1!\mathrm{}\alpha _n!}`$.

The set $`C`$ is a monoid under the operation $``$ of concatenation of sequences: $`(r_1,\mathrm{},r_n)(r_{n+1},\mathrm{},r_{n+m})=(r_1,\mathrm{},r_{n+m})`$. The identity element of $`C`$ is the empty composition $`e`$.

For any composition $`\sigma =(s_1,\mathrm{},s_k)`$, and $`1ik`$, let $`\sigma _i`$ be the interval $`\{s_1+\mathrm{}+s_{i1}+1,\mathrm{},s_1+\mathrm{}+s_i\}`$. The set of all compositions is partially ordered by setting $`\rho \sigma `$ if and only if each part of $`\sigma `$ is a sum of parts of $`\rho `$, that is, if and only if each interval $`\sigma _i`$ is a union of $`\rho _j`$’s. This order relation is called refinement, and will play an essential role in the definition of the bialgebra of renormalization. For compositions $`\rho \sigma `$, with $`\sigma =(s_1,\mathrm{},s_{\mathrm{}})`$ and $`\rho =(r_1,\mathrm{},r_k)`$, and $`1i\mathrm{}`$, we define the restriction $`\rho |\sigma _i`$ as the composition $`(r_{j_i},\mathrm{},r_{k_i})`$ of $`s_i`$, where $`j_i=\mathrm{min}\{j:\rho _j\sigma _i\}`$ and $`k_i=\mathrm{max}\{j:\rho _j\sigma _i\}`$. Note that we then have the factorization $`\rho =(\rho |\sigma _1)\mathrm{}(\rho |\sigma _k)`$.

For example, if $`\sigma =(4,5)`$ and $`\rho =(1,2,1,2,2,1)`$, then $`\rho =(\rho |\sigma _1)(\rho |\sigma _2)`$ where $`(\rho |\sigma _1)=(1,2,1)`$ is a composition of 4 and $`(\rho |\sigma _2)=(2,2,1)`$ is a composition of 5. Thus $`\rho \sigma `$ and we say that $`\rho `$ is a refinement of $`\sigma `$. Note that $`|\rho |=|\sigma |`$ and $`\mathrm{}(\rho )\mathrm{}(\sigma )`$ if $`\rho \sigma `$.

If $`\rho \sigma `$, we define the quotient $`\sigma /\rho `$ to be the composition of $`\mathrm{}(\rho )`$ given by $`(t_1,\mathrm{},t_k)`$, where $`t_i=\mathrm{}((\rho |\sigma _i))`$, for $`1ik`$. In our example $`\sigma /\rho =(3,3)`$. Note that, for $`\sigma C_n`$ with $`\mathrm{}(\sigma )=k`$, we have $`(n)/\sigma =(k)`$, $`\sigma /(1,1,\mathrm{},1)=\sigma `$, and $`\sigma /\sigma =(1,1,\mathrm{},1)C_k`$

Each of the sets $`C_n`$ (as well as all of $`C`$) is partially ordered by refinement. Each $`C_n`$ has unique minimal element $`(1,\mathrm{},1)`$ and unique maximal element $`(n)`$, and these are all the minimal and maximal elements in $`C`$. The partially ordered sets $`C_n`$ are actually Boolean algebras, but we will not use this fact here.

Now we give a lemma that will be used in proving the coassociativity of the coproduct.

###### Lemma 1.

If $`\rho \tau `$ in $`C`$, then the map $`\sigma \sigma /\rho `$ is a bijection from the set $`\{\sigma :\rho \sigma \tau \}`$ onto the set $`\{\gamma :\gamma \tau /\rho \}`$.

###### Proof.

Suppose that $`\rho =(r_1,\mathrm{},r_k)`$ and that $`\gamma =(s_1,\mathrm{},s_{\mathrm{}})\tau /\rho `$. Define $`\overline{\gamma }C`$ by

$$\overline{\gamma }=(r_1+\mathrm{}+r_{s_1},r_{s_1+1}+\mathrm{}+r_{s_1+s_2},\mathrm{},r_{ks_{\mathrm{}}+1}+\mathrm{}+r_k).$$

It is then readily verified that $`\rho \overline{\gamma }\tau `$, and that the map $`\gamma \overline{\gamma }`$ is inverse to the map $`\sigma \sigma /\rho `$. ∎

The monoid of compositions allows us to define a grading on $`T(T()^+)`$.

For all $`n0`$ and $`\rho =(r_1,\mathrm{},r_k)`$ in $`C_n`$, we let $`T^\rho ()`$ denote the subspace of $`T^k(T()^+)`$ given by $`T^{r_1}()\mathrm{}T^{r_k}()`$. We then have the direct sum decomposition $`T(T()^+)=_{\rho C}T^\rho ()`$, where $`T^\rho ()T^\tau ()T^{\rho \tau }()`$ for all $`\rho ,\tau C`$, and $`1_{T\left(T\left(\right)\right)}T^e()`$, where $`e`$ denotes the empty composition; in other words, $`T(T()^+)`$ is a $`C`$-graded algebra.

We use this grading to define operations on $`T(T()^+)`$. Given $`a=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T^n()`$ and $`\rho =(r_1,\mathrm{},r_k)C`$, we define $`a|\rho _iT^{r_i}()`$, for $`1ik`$ by

$$a|\rho _i=\underset{j\rho _i}{}(x_j)=(x_{r_1+\mathrm{}+r_{i1}+1},\mathrm{},x_{r_1+\mathrm{}+r_i}),$$

where we take $`x_j=0`$, for $`j>n`$, and we define the *restriction* $`a|\rho T^\rho ()`$ and *contraction* $`a/\rho T^k()`$ by

$`a|\rho `$ $`=(a|\rho _1)\mathrm{}(a|\rho _k)`$
$`=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_{r_1})(x_{r_1+1},\mathrm{},x_{r_1+r_2})\mathrm{}(x_{nr_k+1},\mathrm{},x_n)`$
and

$`a/\rho `$ $`=T(\mu _{})(a|\rho )=(\mu _{}(a|\rho _1),\mathrm{},\mu _{}(a|\rho _k))`$
$`=(x_1\mathrm{}x_{r_1},x_{r_1+1}\mathrm{}x_{r_1+r_2},\mathrm{},x_{nr_k+1}\mathrm{}x_n),`$
where $`x_i\mathrm{}x_j`$ denotes the product of $`x_i,\mathrm{},x_j`$ in $``$. Note that $`a|\rho `$ and $`a/\rho `$ are zero if $`|\rho |n`$. Observe also that, even though the quantity $`a|\rho _i`$ depends (up to a scalar multiple) on the choice of elements $`x_1,\mathrm{},x_n`$ representing $`a=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T^n()`$, the quantities $`a|\rho `$ and $`a/\rho `$ depend only on $`a`$ and $`\rho `$.

More generally, for $`u=a_1\mathrm{}a_{\mathrm{}}`$ in $`T^\sigma ()`$, and $`\rho C`$, we define $`u|\rho T^\rho ()`$ and $`u/\rho T^{\sigma /\rho }()`$ by

$$u|\rho =a_1|(\rho |\sigma _1)\mathrm{}a_{\mathrm{}}|(\rho |\sigma _{\mathrm{}})\text{and}u/\rho =a_1/(\rho |\sigma _1)\mathrm{}a_{\mathrm{}}/(\rho |\sigma _{\mathrm{}}).$$

Note that $`u|\rho `$ and $`u/\rho `$ are both zero if $`\rho \sigma `$.

###### Example 1.

Suppose that $`\rho =(1,2,1,2,2,1)`$, $`\sigma =(3,1,2,3)`$ and $`\tau =(4,5)`$, so that $`\rho \sigma \tau `$ in $`C`$. We then have the quotients $`\sigma /\rho =(2,1,1,2)`$, $`\tau /\rho =(3,3)`$ and $`\tau /\sigma =(2,2)`$. If $`u=(x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4)(y_1,y_2,y_3,y_4,y_5)`$ in $`T^\tau ()`$, then

$`u|\rho `$ $`=(x_1)(x_2,x_3)(x_4)(y_1,y_2)(y_3,y_4)(y_5)T^\rho (),`$
$`u|\sigma `$ $`=(x_1,x_2,x_3)(x_4)(y_1,y_2)(y_3,y_4,y_5)T^\sigma (),`$
$`u/\rho `$ $`=(x_1,x_2x_3,x_4)(y_1y_2,y_3y_4,y_5)T^{\tau /\rho }(),`$
$`u/\sigma `$ $`=(x_1x_2x_3,x_4)(y_1y_2,y_3y_4y_5)T^{\tau /\sigma }(),`$
$`(u|\sigma )/\rho `$ $`=(u/\rho )|(\sigma /\rho )=(x_1,x_2x_3)(x_4)(y_1y_2)(y_3y_4,y_5)T^{\sigma /\rho }().`$
The last equality illustrates the following lemma.

###### Lemma 2.

For all $`\rho ,\sigma ,\tau C`$, and $`uT^\tau ()`$, the equalities

$$(u|\sigma )|\rho =u|\rho ,(u/\rho )/(\sigma /\rho )=u/\sigma ,\text{and}(u|\sigma )/\rho =(u/\rho )|(\sigma /\rho )$$

hold in $`T(T()^+)`$.

###### Proof.

First note that all the expressions above are zero unless $`\rho \sigma \tau `$ in $`C`$. Thus it suffices to prove the result for $`u=a=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T^n()`$ and $`\rho \sigma `$ in $`C_n`$. If $`\mathrm{}(\sigma )=k`$, then $`a|\sigma =_{i=1}^ka|\sigma _i`$, and

$$(a|\sigma )|\rho =\underset{i=1}{\overset{k}{}}(a|\sigma _i)|(\rho |\sigma _i)=\underset{i=1}{\overset{k}{}}\underset{\rho _j\sigma _i}{}(a|\sigma _i)|\rho _j=\underset{i=1}{\overset{k}{}}\underset{\rho _j\sigma _i}{}(a|\rho _j),$$

which is equal to $`a|\rho `$. For the second equation, we have

$`(a/\rho )/(\sigma /\rho )`$ $`=(\mu _{}((a/\rho )|(\sigma /\rho )_1),\mathrm{},\mu _{}((a/\rho )|(\sigma /\rho )_k))`$
$`=(\mu _{}(a|\sigma _1),\mathrm{},\mu _{}(a|\sigma _k))`$
$`=a/\sigma .`$
Finally, we have

$`(a|\sigma )/\rho `$ $`={\displaystyle \underset{i=1}{\overset{k}{}}}(a|\sigma _i)/(\rho |\sigma _i)`$
$`={\displaystyle \underset{i=1}{\overset{k}{}}}{\displaystyle \underset{\rho _j\sigma _i}{}}(\mu _{}((a|\sigma _i)|\rho _j))`$
$`={\displaystyle \underset{i=1}{\overset{k}{}}}{\displaystyle \underset{\rho _j\sigma _i}{}}(\mu _{}(a|\rho _j))`$
$`={\displaystyle \underset{i=1}{\overset{k}{}}}(a/\rho )|(\sigma /\rho )_i,`$
which is equal to $`(a/\rho )|(\sigma /\rho )`$. ∎

###### Lemma 3.

For all $`\rho C`$ the restriction and contraction maps, given by $`uu|\rho `$ and $`uu/\rho `$, respectively, for homogeneous $`u`$, are coalgebra maps $`T(T()^+)T(T()^+)`$; that is, for all $`\rho ,\sigma C`$ and $`uT^\sigma ()`$, with free coproduct $`\delta (u)=u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}u_{\left(2\right)}`$, the equalities

$`\delta (u|\rho )`$ $`={\displaystyle }u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\rho u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}|\rho ,\text{and}`$
$`\delta (u/\rho )`$ $`={\displaystyle }u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}/\rho u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\rho `$
hold.

###### Proof.

First note that both sides of each of the above equations are zero if it is not the case that $`\rho \sigma `$ in $`C`$. Hence, by multiplicativity of $`\delta `$ it suffices to consider the case in which $`u=a=(x^1,\mathrm{},x^n)T^n()`$ and $`\rho =(r_1,\mathrm{},r_k)C_n`$. Then we have

$`\delta (a|\rho )`$ $`=`$ $`\delta ((x^1,\mathrm{},x^{r_1})(x^{r_1+1},\mathrm{},x^{r_2})\mathrm{}(x^{nr_k+1},\mathrm{},x^n))`$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }((x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{r_1})(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{r_1+1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{r_2})\mathrm{}(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{nr_k+1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{n}))`$
$`((x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{r_1})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{r_1+1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{r_2})\mathrm{}(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{nr_k+1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{n}))`$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{n})|\rho (x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{n})|\rho `$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\rho a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}|\rho ,`$
and

$`\delta (a/\rho )`$ $`=`$ $`\delta (x^1\mathrm{}x^{r_1},\mathrm{},x^{nr_k+1}\mathrm{}x^n)`$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }((x^1\mathrm{}x^{r_1}){}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},\mathrm{},(x^{nr_k+1}\mathrm{}x^n){}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})`$
$`((x^1\mathrm{}x^{r_1}){}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},\mathrm{},(x^{nr_k+1}\mathrm{}x^n){}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})`$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{r_1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{nr_k+1}\mathrm{}x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{n})`$
$`(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{r_1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{nr_k+1}\mathrm{}x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{n})`$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{n})/\rho (x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{n})/\rho `$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}/\rho a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\rho .`$
### 2.3. The renormalization coproduct and counit

We now define the coproduct $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ on the algebra $`T(T()^+)`$ by

(1)
$$\mathrm{\Delta }u=\underset{\sigma \tau }{}u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\sigma u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\sigma ,$$

for $`uT^\tau ()`$, with free coproduct $`\delta (u)=u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}u_{\left(2\right)}`$. The coproduct $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ is called the *renormalization coproduct* because of its role in the renormalization of quantum field theories. Note that $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ is an algebra map, and hence is determined by

$$\mathrm{\Delta }a=\underset{\sigma C_n}{}a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\sigma a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\sigma ,$$

for all $`aT^n()`$ with $`n1`$. For example

$`\mathrm{\Delta }(x)`$ $`={\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}),`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }(x,y)`$ $`={\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})+{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}),`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }(x,y,z)`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})`$
$`+{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})`$
$`+{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})`$
$`+{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}).`$
The counit $`\epsilon `$ of $`T(T()^+)`$ is the algebra map $`T(T()^+)`$ whose restriction to $`T()^+`$ is given by $`\epsilon ((x))=\epsilon _{}(x)`$, for $`x`$, and $`\epsilon ((x_1,\mathrm{},x_n))=0`$, for $`n>1`$.

###### Theorem 1.

The algebra $`T(T()^+)`$, together with the structure maps $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ and $`\epsilon `$ defined above, is a bialgebra, called the *renormalization bialgebra*.

###### Proof.

For $`uT^\tau ()`$, we have

$`(\mathrm{\Delta }\mathrm{Id})\mathrm{\Delta }u`$ $`={\displaystyle \underset{\sigma \tau }{}}\mathrm{\Delta }(u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\sigma )u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\sigma `$
$`={\displaystyle \underset{\rho \sigma \tau }{}}(u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\sigma )|\rho (u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}|\sigma )/\rho u{}_{\left(3\right)}{}^{}/\sigma `$
(2) $`={\displaystyle \underset{\rho \sigma \tau }{}}u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\rho (u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}|\sigma )/\rho u{}_{\left(3\right)}{}^{}/\sigma ,`$
where the second equality is by Lemma 3, and the third by Lemma 2. On the other hand,

$`(\mathrm{Id}\mathrm{\Delta })\mathrm{\Delta }u`$ $`={\displaystyle \underset{\rho \tau }{}}u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\rho \mathrm{\Delta }(u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\rho )`$
$`={\displaystyle \underset{\rho \tau }{}}{\displaystyle \underset{\gamma \tau /\rho }{}}u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\rho (u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\rho )|\gamma (u{}_{\left(3\right)}{}^{}/\rho )/\gamma `$
(3) $`={\displaystyle \underset{\rho \sigma \tau }{}}u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\rho (u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\rho )|(\sigma /\rho )(u{}_{\left(3\right)}{}^{}/\rho )/(\sigma /\rho ),`$
where the second equality is by Lemma 3 and the third follows from Lemma 1. Expressions 2 and 3 are equal by Lemma 2, and hence $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ is coassociative.

For $`a=(x^1,\mathrm{},x^n)T^n()`$, with $`\delta (a)=a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}a_{\left(2\right)}`$, we have

$$(\mathrm{Id}\epsilon )\mathrm{\Delta }a=\underset{\sigma C_n}{}a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\sigma \epsilon (a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\sigma ).$$

Now $`\epsilon (a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\sigma )=0`$ unless $`\sigma =(n)`$; hence

$`(\mathrm{Id}\epsilon )\mathrm{\Delta }a`$ $`={\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{n})\epsilon _{T\left(\right)}(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{n})`$
$`={\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{n})\epsilon _{}(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1})\mathrm{}\epsilon _{}(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{n})`$
$`={\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1}\epsilon _{}^{}(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1}),\mathrm{},x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{n}\epsilon _{}^{}(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{n}))`$
$`=a.`$
The proof that $`(\epsilon \mathrm{Id})\mathrm{\Delta }a=a`$ is similar. We have already observed that $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ and $`ϵ`$ are algebra maps; hence $`T(T()^+)`$ is a bialgebra. ∎

We now have two coproducts on $`T(T()^+)`$, namely the free coproduct $`\delta `$ and the renormalization coproduct $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ defined by Equation 1. In order to avoid confusion in the following sections, we adopt the following alternate Sweedler notation for the new coproduct:

$$\mathrm{\Delta }u=u{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}u{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{},$$

for all $`uT(T()^+)`$. Note that, in particular,

$$\mathrm{\Delta }(x)=(x){}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}(x){}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}=(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}),$$

for all $`x`$. Whenever we simply refer to the bialgebra $`T(T()^+)`$, we shall mean the renormalization bialgebra; we will always state explicitly when considering $`T(T()^+)`$ with the free bialgebra structure.

### 2.4. Recursive definition of the coproduct

The action of $``$ on itself by left multiplication extends to an action $`T()T()`$, denoted by $`xaxa`$, in the usual manner, that is

$$xa=(xx_1,x_2,\mathrm{},x_n),$$

for all $`x`$ and $`a=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T^n()`$. This action, in turn, extends to an action of $``$ on $`T(T()^+)`$, denoted similarly by $`xuxu`$; that is:

$$xu=(xa_1)a_2\mathrm{}a_k,$$

for all $`x`$ and $`u=a_1\mathrm{}a_kT(T()^+)`$.

The following proposition, together with the fact that $`\mathrm{\Delta }1=11`$ and $`\mathrm{\Delta }(x)=(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})`$ for all $`x`$, determines $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ recursively on $`T()`$ and hence, by multiplicativity, determines $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ on all of $`T(T()^+)`$.

###### Proposition 1.

For all $`aT^n()`$, with $`n1`$, and $`x`$,

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$$\mathrm{\Delta }((x)a)=(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}+(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}.$$

###### Proof.

We denote by $`C_n^{}`$ the set of all compositions of $`n`$ whose first part is equal to $`1`$ and write $`C_n^{\prime \prime }`$ for the set difference $`C_n\backslash C_n^{}`$. Note that the map $`\rho (1)\rho `$ is a bijection from $`C_n`$ onto $`C_{n+1}^{}`$. If $`\rho =(r_1,r_2,\mathrm{},r_k)`$ we define $`\rho ^+=(r_1+1,r_2,\mathrm{},r_k)`$ and the map $`\rho \rho ^+`$ is a bijection from $`C_n`$ onto $`C_{n+1}^{\prime \prime }`$. From the definition of $`a|\rho `$ and $`a/\rho `$ it can be checked that $`\left((x)a\right)/\left((1)\rho \right)=(x)(a/\rho )`$, $`\left((x)a\right)|\left((1)\rho \right)=(x)(a|\rho )`$, $`\left((x)a\right)/\rho ^+=(x)(a|\rho )`$ and $`\left((x)a\right)|\rho ^+=(x)(a|\rho )`$, where in the last identity we extend the product of $`T()`$ by $`(x)u=\left((x)a_1\right)a_2\mathrm{}a_k`$ if $`u=a_1a_2\mathrm{}a_k`$.

We then have

$`\mathrm{\Delta }((x)a)`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle \underset{\rho C_{n+1}^{}}{}}((x)a){}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\rho ((x)a){}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\rho `$
$`+{\displaystyle \underset{\rho C_{n+1}^{\prime \prime }}{}}((x)a){}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\rho ((x)a){}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\rho `$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle \underset{\sigma C_n}{}}(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\sigma )(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})(a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\sigma )`$
$`+{\displaystyle \underset{\tau C_n}{}}(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\tau )(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})(a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\tau ),`$
which is precisely the right-hand side of Equation 4. ∎

The recursive definition of $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ was used in  to show that $`T(T()^+)`$ is isomorphic to the noncommutative Hopf algebra of formal diffeomorphisms in the case that $``$ is the trivial algebra.

We may formulate Equation 4 as follows: Corresponding to an element $`x`$ of $``$ there are three linear operators on $`T(T()^+)`$:

$`A_x(u)`$ $`=xu`$
$`B_x(u)`$ $`=((x)a_1)a_2\mathrm{}a_k\text{(where }u=a_1\mathrm{}a_k\text{)}`$
$`C_x(u)`$ $`=(x)u`$
induced by left multiplication in $``$, $`T()`$, and $`T(T()^+)`$, respectively. With this notation, Equation 4 takes the form

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$$\mathrm{\Delta }(B_x(a))=(C_{x_{(1)}}B_{x_{(2)}}+B_{x_{(1)}}A_{x_{(2)}})\mathrm{\Delta }a.$$

As a third formulation, let $`A`$, $`B`$ and $`C`$ be the mappings from $``$ to the set of linear operators on $`T(T()^+)`$ respectively given by $`xA_x`$, $`xB_x`$, and $`xC_x`$; then Equation 4 takes the form

$$\mathrm{\Delta }(B_x(a))=(BA+CB)(\delta (x))(\mathrm{\Delta }a).$$

We also have

$`\mathrm{\Delta }(A_x(a))`$ $`=(AA)(\delta (x))(\mathrm{\Delta }a),`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }(C_x(a))`$ $`=(CC)(\delta (x))(\mathrm{\Delta }a).`$
Finally, we give a more explicit expression for the coproduct. If $`a=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)`$, we have

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$$\mathrm{\Delta }a=\underset{u}{}a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{\mathrm{}(u)}(a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{\mathrm{}(u)}),$$

where the product $`a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}a_{\left(1\right)}^{\mathrm{}(u)}`$ is in $`T(T()^+)`$. In this formula, which is a simple rewriting of Equation 1, $`u`$ runs over the compositions of $`a`$. By a composition of $`a`$, we mean an element $`u`$ of $`T(T()^+)`$ such that $`u=(a|\rho )`$ for some $`\rho C_n`$. If the length of $`\rho `$ is $`k`$, we can write $`u=a^1\mathrm{}a^k`$ where $`a^iT()`$ are called the blocks of $`u`$. Finally the length of $`u`$ is $`\mathrm{}(u)=\mathrm{}(\rho )=k`$. To complete the definition of Equation 6, we still have to define $`a_{\left(1\right)}^i`$ and $`a_{\left(2\right)}^i`$. If $`a^i=(y^1,\mathrm{},y^m)`$ is a block, then $`a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{i}=(y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{m})T()^+`$ and $`a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{i}=\mu _{}(y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{m})`$.

### 2.5. Functoriality

Given vector spaces $`V`$, $`W`$, and a linear map $`f:VW`$, we denote by $`\widehat{f}`$ the algebra map $`T(T(f)):T(T(V)^+)T(T(W)^+)`$, determined by $`\widehat{f}(a)=T(f)(a)=(f(x^1),\mathrm{},f(x^n))`$ for all $`a=(x^1,\mathrm{},x^n)T^n(V)`$, and $`\widehat{f}(u)=\widehat{f}(a_1)\mathrm{}\widehat{f}(a_k)`$, for all $`u=a_1\mathrm{}a_kT(T(V)^+)`$, where $`a_1,\mathrm{},a_kT(V)^+`$. The following proposition shows that the renormalization construction on bialgebras is functorial.

###### Proposition 2.

If $``$ and $`𝒞`$ are bialgebras and $`f:𝒞`$ is a bialgebra map, then $`\widehat{f}:T(T()^+)T(T(𝒞)^+)`$ is a bialgebra map.

###### Proof.

Given $`aT^n()`$, and a composition $`\rho C_n`$, it follows directly from the definition of $`\widehat{f}`$ that $`\widehat{f}(a|\rho )=\widehat{f}(a)|\rho `$, and using the fact that $`f`$ preserves products, it follows that $`\widehat{f}(a/\rho )=\widehat{f}(a)/\rho `$. By multiplicativity of $`\widehat{f}`$ we thus have

$$\widehat{f}(u|\sigma )=\widehat{f}(u)|\sigma \text{and}\widehat{f}(u/\sigma )=\widehat{f}(u)/\sigma ,$$

for all homogeneous $`uT(T()^+)`$ and all compositions $`\sigma C`$. Furthermore, it is immediate from the fact $`f:𝒞`$ preserves coproducts that $`\widehat{f}:T(T()^+)T(T(𝒞)^+)`$ preserves free coproducts. Thus for all compositions $`\tau `$, and $`uT^\tau ()`$, with free coproduct $`\delta (u)=u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}u_{\left(2\right)}`$, we have

$`\mathrm{\Delta }\widehat{f}(u)`$ $`={\displaystyle \underset{\sigma \tau }{}}f(u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})|\sigma f(u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})/\sigma ,`$
$`={\displaystyle \underset{\sigma \tau }{}}f(u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\sigma )f(u{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\sigma ),`$
$`=(\widehat{f}\widehat{f})\mathrm{\Delta }(u),`$
and so $`\widehat{f}`$ preserves the renormalization coproduct. ∎

### 2.6. Grading

We now assume that $``$ is a graded bialgebra; this entails no loss of generality because we can always consider that all elements of $``$ have degree 0. The grading of $``$ will be used to define a grading on the bialgebra $`T(T()^+)`$. We denote by $`|x|`$ the degree of a homogeneous element $`x`$ of $``$, and by $`\mathrm{deg}(a)`$ the degree (to be defined) of homogeneous $`a`$ in $`T(T()^+)`$. We first discuss the grading of elements of $`T()`$. The degree of 1 is zero, the degree of $`(x)T^1()`$ is equal to the degree of $`x`$ in $``$, that is, $`\mathrm{deg}\left((x)\right)=|x|`$. More generally, the degree of $`(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T^n()`$ is

$$\mathrm{deg}\left((x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)\right)=|x_1|+\mathrm{}+|x_n|+n1.$$

Finally, if $`a_1,\mathrm{},a_k`$ are homogeneous elements of $`T()^+`$, the degree of their product in $`T(T()^+)`$ is defined by

$$\mathrm{deg}(a_1\mathrm{}a_k)=\mathrm{deg}(a_1)+\mathrm{}+\mathrm{deg}(a_k).$$

###### Proposition 3.

The renormalization bialgebra $`T(T()^+)`$, with degree defined as above, is a graded bialgebra.

###### Proof.

By definition, the degree is compatible with the multiplication of $`T(T()^+)`$. The fact that it is also compatible with the renormalization coproduct of $`T(T()^+)`$, follows directly from Formula 6. ∎

For dealing with fermions, we must use a $`_2`$-graded algebra $``$. In this case, we extend the grading of $``$ to a $`_2`$-grading of $`T(T()^+)`$ as follows: for $`a=(x^1,\mathrm{},x^n)T^n()`$, we set $`|a|=|x^1|+\mathrm{}+|x^n|`$, and for $`u=a_1\mathrm{}a_kT(T()^+)`$, we set $`|u|=|a_1|+\mathrm{}+|a_k|`$. The coproduct is determined by

$$\mathrm{\Delta }a=\underset{\rho C_n}{}\mathrm{sgn}(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\rho a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\rho ,$$

for $`a=(x^1,\mathrm{},x^n)T^n()`$, where $`\delta (a)=a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}a_{\left(2\right)}`$ is the free coproduct and

$$\mathrm{sgn}(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})=(1)^{_{k=2}^n_{l=1}^{k1}|x{}_{(1)}{}^{k}||x{}_{(2)}{}^{l}|}.$$

is the usual Koszul sign factor.

## 3. The commutative renormalization bialgebra

When the bialgebra $``$ is commutative, it is possible to work with the symmetric algebra $`S(S()^+)`$ instead of the tensor algebra $`T(T()^+)`$. We construct $`S(S()^+)`$ as a subbialgebra of the quotient bialgebra $`S(T()^+)`$ of $`T(T()^+)`$. We denote by $`\mathrm{\Sigma }_n`$ the set of all permutations of $`\{1,\mathrm{},n\}`$ and, for $`a=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T^n()`$ and $`\sigma \mathrm{\Sigma }_n`$, we write $`a^\sigma `$ for $`(x_{\sigma (1)},\mathrm{},x_{\sigma (n)})`$. Let $`\alpha =\alpha _{}:T()T()`$ be the symmetrizing operator given by $`aa^\sigma `$, for all $`aT^n()`$, where the sum is over all $`\sigma \mathrm{\Sigma }_n`$. We identify $`S()^+`$, as a vector space, with the image $`\alpha (T()^+)`$ in $`T()`$. We write $`\{a\}`$ for $`\alpha (a)`$ and denote the product in $`S()^+`$ by $``$, so that

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$$\{x_1,\mathrm{},x_n\}=\underset{\sigma \mathrm{\Sigma }_n}{}(x_{\sigma (1)},\mathrm{},x_{\sigma (n)}),$$

and $`\{x_1,\mathrm{},x_n\}\{x_{n+1},\mathrm{},x_{n+m}\}=\{x_1,\mathrm{},x_{n+m}\}`$, for all $`x_1,\mathrm{},x_{n+m}`$. Note that $`S()^+`$, with product $``$ is not a subalgebra of $`T()^+`$.

We define $`S(T()^+)`$ as the quotient algebra $`T(T()^+)/I`$, where $`I`$ is the ideal $`\{u(abba)v|u,vT(T()^+)\text{ and }a,bT()^+\}`$. The symmetric algebra $`S(S()^+)`$ is the image of the subspace $`T(S()^+)T(T()^+)`$ under the canonical projection $`T(T()^+)S(T()^+)`$ or, equivalently, the image of the map $`S(\alpha ):S(T()^+)S(T()^+)`$, determined by $`S(\alpha )(a_1\mathrm{}a_k)=\{a_1\}\mathrm{}\{a_n\}`$, for all $`a_1,\mathrm{},a_kT()^+`$.

The following lemma shows that the symmetric algebra $`S(T()^+)`$ inherits the renormalization coproduct.

###### Lemma 4.

The symmetric algebra $`S(T()^+)`$ is a quotient bialgebra of the renormalization bialgebra $`T(T()^+)`$.

###### Proof.

The bialgebra $`S(T()^+)`$ is obtained from the bialgebra $`T(T()^+)`$ by the standard quotient method (see, e.g., , p.56). We define the ideal $`I=\{u(abba)v|u,vT(T()^+),a,bT()^+\}`$, and note that

$`\mathrm{\Delta }u(abba)v`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }u{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}b{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}v{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}u{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}b{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}v_{\left[2\right]}`$
$`{\displaystyle }u{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}b{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}v{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}u{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}b{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}v_{\left[2\right]}`$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }u{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}(a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}b{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}b{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{})v{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}u{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}b{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}v_{\left[2\right]}`$
$`+{\displaystyle }u{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}b{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}v{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}u{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}(a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}b{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}b{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{})v{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}.`$
Thus $`\mathrm{\Delta }IIT(T()^+)+T(T()^+)I`$. Moreover, $`\epsilon (I)=0`$ because $`\epsilon (abba)=0`$. Therefore $`I`$ is a coideal. Since $`I`$ is also an ideal, the quotient $`S(T()^+)=T(T()^+)/I`$ is a bialgebra, which is commutative . ∎

In order to describe the commutative renormalization bialgebra $`S(S()^+)`$, we first establish some notation involving partitions of sets. A partition of a set $`S`$ is a set $`\pi `$ of nonempty, pairwise disjoint, subsets of $`S`$, called the blocks of $`\pi `$, having union equal to $`S`$. We denote by $`\mathrm{\Pi }_n`$ the set of all partitions of $`\{1,\mathrm{},n\}`$. Given $`a=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T^n()`$ and a subset $`B=\{i_1,\mathrm{},i_j\}`$ of $`\{1,\mathrm{},n\}`$, we define $`\{a|B\}S^j()`$ by

$$\{a|B\}=\{x_{i_1},\mathrm{},x_{i_k}\}=\underset{iB}{}\{x_i\},$$

and, for $`\pi =\{B_1,\mathrm{},B_k\}\mathrm{\Pi }_n`$, we define $`a|\pi S(S()^+)`$ by

$$a|\pi =\{a|B_1\}\mathrm{}\{a|B_k\}=\underset{B\pi }{}\{a|B\}.$$

If $``$ is commutative, we regard the product $`\mu _{}`$ as a map $`S()^+B`$, and in this case we define $`a/\pi S()^+`$ by

$$a/\pi =S(\mu _{})(a|\pi )=\{\mu _{}\{a|B_1\},\mathrm{},\mu _{}\{a|B_k\}\}.$$

###### Theorem 2.

If $``$ is a commutative bialgebra then the symmetric algebra $`S(S()^+)`$ is a subbialgebra of $`S(T()^+)`$. The coproduct of $`S(T()^+)`$, restricted to $`S(S()^+)`$, is determined by the formula

(8)
$$\mathrm{\Delta }\{a\}=\underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_n}{}a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\pi a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\pi ,$$

for all $`aT^n()`$. We refer to $`S(S()^+)`$ as the *commutative renormalization bialgebra*.

We express the coproduct (8) analogously to the formula (6) for the coproduct of $`T(T()^+)`$ as follows:

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$$\mathrm{\Delta }b=\underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_n}{}b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{k}\{b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1},\mathrm{},b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{k}\}.$$

Here, $`b=\{a\}S^n()`$, where $`a=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T^n()`$ and, for each partition $`\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_n`$, we have $`b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{i}=\{a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|B_i\}`$, and $`b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{i}=\mu _{}(\{a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}|B_i\})`$, for $`1ik`$, where $`\{B_1,\mathrm{},B_k\}`$ is the set of blocks of $`\pi `$.

Examples:

$`\mathrm{\Delta }\{x\}`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }\{x,y\}`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}+{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }\{x,y,z\}`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`+{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`+{\displaystyle }\{y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`+{\displaystyle }\{z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`+{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}.`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }\{x,y,y\}`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`+{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`+\mathrm{\hspace{0.17em}2}{\displaystyle }\{y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`+{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}.`$
###### Proof of Theorem 2.

We first note that, since the sum on the right-hand side of Equation 8 is over all partitions $`\pi `$ of $`\{1,\mathrm{},n\}`$, the result is independent of the choice of $`aT^n()`$ representing $`\{a\}`$. The fact that $`S(S()^+)`$ is a subbialgebra of $`S(T()^+)`$ will follow once we establish Equation 8, since the right-hand side belongs to $`S(S()^+)S()^+S(S()^+)S(S()^+)`$.

The proof depends on a basic bijection relating compositions, permutations and partitions. By a totally ordered partition, we shall mean a partition $`\pi `$ in some $`\mathrm{\Pi }_n`$ each of whose blocks is equipped with a linear ordering, and which is linearly ordered itself. Given a pair $`(\rho ,\sigma )`$, where $`\rho =(r_1,\mathrm{},r_k)`$ is a composition of $`n`$ and $`\sigma `$ is a permutation of $`\{1,\mathrm{},n\}`$, we obtain a partition $`\pi =\{B_1,\mathrm{},B_k\}`$ of $`\{1,\mathrm{},n\}`$ by setting $`B_i=\sigma (\rho _i)=\{\sigma (r_1+\mathrm{}+r_{i1}+1),\mathrm{},\sigma (r_1+\mathrm{}+r_i)\}`$, for $`1ik`$. The set $`\pi `$ is ordered by $`B_1<\mathrm{}<B_k`$, and each $`B_i`$ has the linear ordering inherited from the order $`\sigma (1)<\mathrm{}<\sigma (n)`$ of $`\{1,\mathrm{},n\}`$. The correspondence $`(\rho ,\sigma )\pi `$ thus defines a bijection from the cartesian product $`C_n\times \mathrm{\Sigma }_n`$ onto the set of totally ordered partitions of $`\{1,\mathrm{},n\}`$. The inverse bijection maps a totally ordered partition $`\{B_1,\mathrm{},B_k\}`$ of $`\{1,\mathrm{},n\}`$ to the pair $`(\rho ,\sigma )`$, where $`\rho =(|B_1|,\mathrm{},|B_k|)`$, and $`\sigma (i)`$ is the ith element of the concatenation of the linearly ordered sets $`B_1,B_2,\mathrm{},B_k`$, for $`1in`$.

Now suppose that $`a=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)T^n()`$. By definition of $`\{a\}`$ and the coproduct formula (1), we have

$$\mathrm{\Delta }\{a\}=\underset{\rho C_n}{}\underset{\sigma \mathrm{\Sigma }_n}{}a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{\sigma }|\rho a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{\sigma }/\rho ,$$

where it is understood that, for $`\rho `$ a composition of length $`k`$, the expression $`a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{\sigma }|\rho =(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{\sigma }|\rho _1)\mathrm{}(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{\sigma }|\rho _k)`$ is the product in $`S(T()^+)`$. Using the commutativity of this product on the left side of the tensor product, the commutativity of $`\mu _{}`$ on the right side, and the above bijection, we thus have

$$\mathrm{\Delta }\{a\}=\{a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|B_1\}\mathrm{}\{a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|B_k\}\{a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\pi \},$$

where the sum is over all $`\pi =\{B_1,\mathrm{},B_k\}\mathrm{\Pi }_n`$; in other words

$$\mathrm{\Delta }\{a\}=\underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_n}{}a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}|\pi a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}/\pi .$$

It is also possible to identify $`S(S()^+)`$ as a subspace of $`T(T()^+)`$; that is, as the image of $`T(T()^+)`$ under the composition $`\alpha _{T()}T(\alpha _{}):T(T())T(T())`$, which maps $`u=a_1\mathrm{}a_kT(T()^+)`$ to $`\{\{a_1\},\mathrm{},\{a_k\}\}S(S()^+)`$. The proof of Theorem 2 shows that, under this identification, the commutative renormalization bialgebra $`S(S()^+)`$ is in fact a subcoalgebra of the noncommutative renormalization bialgebra $`T(T()^+)`$.

## 4. The Faà di Bruno bialgebra

When $``$ is the Hopf algebra of a commutative group, there is a homomorphism from the bialgebra $`S(S()^+)`$ to the Faà di Bruno algebra. In 1855, Francesco Faà di Bruno (who was beatified in 1988), derived the general formula for the $`n`$th derivative of the composition of two functions $`f(g(x))`$ . In 1974, Peter Doubilet defined a bialgebra arising from the partitions of a set . This bialgebra was called the Faà di Bruno bialgebra by Joni and Rota , because it is closely related to the Faà di Bruno formula. This bialgebra was further investigated by Schmitt in , by Schmitt and Haiman in , and more recently by Figueroa and Gracia-Bondia in .

### 4.1. Definition

As an algebra, the Faà di Bruno bialgebra $``$ is the polynomial algebra generated by $`u_n`$ for $`n1`$. The coproduct of $``$ is determined by

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$$\delta u_n=\underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_n}{}u_\pi u_{\mathrm{}(\pi )},$$

where $`u_\pi `$ denotes the product $`_{B\pi }u_{\left|B\right|}`$, and $`\mathrm{}(\pi )`$ the number of blocks of $`\pi `$, for all partitions $`\pi `$. If $`\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_n`$ has precisely $`\alpha _i`$ blocks of size $`i`$, for all $`i`$, then $`u_\pi =u_1^{\alpha _1}\mathrm{}u_n^{\alpha _n}`$. Since the number of such partitions is given by

$`{\displaystyle \frac{n!}{\alpha _1!\alpha _2!\mathrm{}\alpha _n!(1!)^{\alpha _1}(2!)^{\alpha _2}\mathrm{}(n!)^{\alpha _n}}}`$
(see, e.g., ), it follows that the coproduct of $``$ may also be expressed as

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$$\mathrm{\Delta }u_n=\underset{k=1}{\overset{n}{}}\underset{\alpha }{}\frac{n!(u_1)^{\alpha _1}(u_2)^{\alpha _2}\mathrm{}(u_n)^{\alpha _n}}{\alpha _1!\alpha _2!\mathrm{}\alpha _n!(1!)^{\alpha _1}(2!)^{\alpha _2}\mathrm{}(n!)^{\alpha _n}}u_k,$$

where the inner sum is over the $`n`$-tuples of nonnegative integers $`\alpha =(\alpha _1,\alpha _2,\mathrm{},\alpha _n)`$ such that $`\alpha _1+2\alpha _2+\mathrm{}+n\alpha _n=n`$ and $`\alpha _1+\alpha _2+\mathrm{}+\alpha _n=k`$. For example,

$`\mathrm{\Delta }u_1`$ $`=u_1u_1,`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }u_2`$ $`=u_2u_1+u_1^2u_2,`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }u_3`$ $`=u_3u_1+3u_1u_2u_2+u_1^3u_3,`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }u_4`$ $`=u_4u_1+4u_1u_3u_2+3u_2^2u_2+6u_1^2u_2u_3+u_1^4u_4.`$
Since $``$ is a bialgebra, the set $``$ of algebra maps from $``$ to the scalar field is a multiplicatively closed subset of the dual algebra $`^{}`$. Using Sweedler notation $`\delta u=u{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}u_{\left(2\right)}`$ for the coproduct of $``$, we have that the (convolution) product of $`f,g`$ is determined by $`(fg)(u_n)=f(u_n{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})g(u_n{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})`$, for all $`n`$. To each element $`f`$, we associate the exponential series

$$f(x)=\underset{n=1}{\overset{\mathrm{}}{}}f(u_n)\frac{x^n}{n!}.$$

It then follows directly from Equation 11 that, for all $`f,g`$, the coefficient of $`x^n/n!`$ in the composition $`f(g(x))`$ is equal to $`(gf)(u_n)`$, and thus $`f(g(x))=(gf)(x)`$. Hence the monoid $``$ is antiisomorphic to the monoid of all exponential formal power series having zero constant term, under the operation of composition.

For instance, the first few coefficients of $`f(g(x))`$ are

$`(gf)(u_1)`$ $`=g_1f_1,`$
$`(gf)(u_2)`$ $`=g_2f_1+g_1^2f_2,`$
$`(gf)(u_3)`$ $`=g_3f_1+3g_1g_2f_2+g_1^3f_3,`$
$`(gf)(u_4)`$ $`=g_4f_1+4g_1g_3f_2+3g_2^2f_2+6g_1^2g_2f_3+g_1^4f_4,`$
where we have written $`f_n`$ and $`g_n`$ for $`f(u_n)`$ and $`g(u_n)`$.

Following Connes and Moscovici , it is possible to introduce a new (noncommutative) element $`X`$ in the algebra, such that $`[X,u_n]=u_{n+1}`$, and to generate the Faà di Bruno coproduct from the relations

$`\mathrm{\Delta }u_1`$ $`=u_1u_1,`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }X`$ $`=X1+u_1X.`$
### 4.2. Homomorphism

Here, we take the bialgebra $``$ to be a commutative group Hopf algebra. If $`G`$ is a commutative group, the commutative algebra $``$ is the vector space generated by the elements of $`G`$, with product induced by the product in $`G`$. The coproduct is defined by $`\delta _{}x=xx`$ for all elements $`xG`$. Formula 9 for the coproduct gives

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$$\mathrm{\Delta }b=\underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_n}{}b^1\mathrm{}b^k\{b^1,\mathrm{},b^k\}.$$

for $`b=\{x_1,\mathrm{},x_n\}`$ with $`x_iG`$.

The homomorphism $`\phi `$ from $`S(S()^+)`$ to the Faà di Bruno bialgebra is given by: $`\phi (1)=1`$ and $`\phi (a)=u_n`$ for any $`aS^n()`$ with $`n>0`$. It is clear that $`\phi `$ is an algebra map; the fact that it respects coproducts can be established directly by comparing Equations 12 and 10.

## 5. The Pinter Hopf algebra

In this section, we complete Pinter’s construction, building the noncommutative and commutative Hopf algebras that can be obtained from the noncommutative and commutative renormalization bialgebras, respectively. These algebras will be called the commutative and noncommutative Pinter Hopf algebras.

### 5.1. The noncommutative case

The renormalization bialgebra $`T(T()^+)`$ can be turned into a Hopf algebra by quotienting by an ideal. The subspace $`I=\{(x)\epsilon _{}(x)1,x\}`$ of $`T(T()^+)`$ is a coideal because $`\epsilon (I)=0`$ and

$`\mathrm{\Delta }\left((x)\epsilon _{}(x)1\right)`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})\epsilon _{}(x)11`$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}){\displaystyle }\epsilon _{}(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})\epsilon _{}(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})11`$
$`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }((x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})\epsilon _{}(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})1)(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})`$
$`+{\displaystyle }\epsilon _{}(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})1((x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})\epsilon _{}(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})1).`$
Therefore, the subspace $`J`$ of elements of the form $`uav`$, where $`u,vT(T()^+)`$ and $`aI`$, is an ideal and a coideal and $`T(T()^+)/J`$ is a bialgebra . The action of the quotient is to replace all the $`(x)`$ by $`\epsilon (x)1`$. For example, we have $`\mathrm{\Delta }(x,y)=1(x,y)+(x,y)1`$, and

$`\mathrm{\Delta }(x,y,z)`$ $`=`$ $`1(x,y,z)+{\displaystyle }(y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x,y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{})`$
$`+{\displaystyle }(x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})(x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},z)+(x,y,z)1.`$
More generally, if $`a=(x_1,\mathrm{},x_n)`$, then

$$\mathrm{\Delta }a=a1+1a+\stackrel{}{}a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},$$

where $`\mathrm{\Sigma }^{}`$ involves only elements $`a_{\left(1\right)}`$ and $`a_{\left(2\right)}`$ of degrees strictly smaller than the degree of $`a`$. Hence, $`T(T()^+)/J`$ is a connected Hopf algebra and the antipode can be defined as in .

### 5.2. The commutative case

The same construction can be carried out with $`S(S()^+)/J^{}`$, where $`J^{}`$ is the subspace of elements of the form $`uav`$, where $`u,vS(S()^+)`$ and $`a\{\{x\}\epsilon _{}(x)1,x\}`$. This gives us

$`\mathrm{\Delta }\{x,y\}`$ $`=`$ $`1\{x,y\}+\{x,y\}1,`$
$`\mathrm{\Delta }\{x,y,z\}`$ $`=`$ $`1\{x,y,z\}+{\displaystyle }\{y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{x,y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`+{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},z{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{y,x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}z{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}`$
$`+{\displaystyle }\{x{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{},y{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}\}\{z,x{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}y{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}\}+\{x,y,z\}1.`$
### 5.3. The Connes-Moscovici Hopf algebra

If we take the same quotient of the Faà di Bruno bialgebra (i.e. by letting $`u_1=1`$), we obtain a Hopf algebra, that we call the Faà di Bruno Hopf algebra. In the course of a proof of index theorems in noncommutative geometry, Connes and Moscovici defined a noncommutative Hopf algebra . They noticed that the commutative part of this Hopf algebra is related to the algebra of diffeomorphisms as follows: If $`\varphi (x)=x+_{n=2}^{\mathrm{}}u_nx^n/n!`$, they define $`\delta _n`$ for $`n>0`$ by

$$\mathrm{log}\varphi ^{}(x)=\underset{n=1}{\overset{\mathrm{}}{}}\delta _n\frac{x^n}{n!}.$$

To calculate $`\delta _n`$ as a function of $`u_k`$, we use the fact that $`\varphi ^{}(x)=1+_{n=1}^{\mathrm{}}u_{n+1}x^n/n!`$ and $`\mathrm{log}(1+z)=_{k=1}^{\mathrm{}}(1)^{k1}(k1)!z^k/k!`$. Since the Faà di Bruno formula describes the composition of series, we can use it to write immediately

$$\delta _n=\underset{k=1}{\overset{n}{}}(1)^{k1}(k1)!\underset{\alpha }{}\frac{n!(u_2)^{\alpha _1}(u_3)^{\alpha _2}\mathrm{}(u_{n+1})^{\alpha _n}}{\alpha _1!\alpha _2!\mathrm{}\alpha _n!(1!)^{\alpha _1}(2!)^{\alpha _2}\mathrm{}(n!)^{\alpha _n}},$$

where the sum is over the $`n`$-tuples of nonnegative integers $`\alpha =(\alpha _1,\alpha _2,\mathrm{},\alpha _n)`$ such that $`\alpha _1+2\alpha _2+\mathrm{}+n\alpha _n=n`$ and $`\alpha _1+\alpha _2+\mathrm{}+\alpha _n=k`$.

For example, $`\delta _1=u_2`$, $`\delta _2=u_3u_2^2`$, $`\delta _3=u_43u_3u_2+2u_2^3`$. Note that, except for the shift, the relation between $`u_n`$ and $`\delta _n`$ is the same as the relation between the moments of a distribution and its cumulants, or between unconnected Green functions and connected Green functions. The inverse relation is obtained from

$$\varphi (x)=_0^xdt\mathrm{exp}\left(\underset{n=1}{\overset{\mathrm{}}{}}\delta _n\frac{t^n}{n!}\right);$$

thus

$$u_{n+1}=\underset{\alpha }{}\frac{n!(\delta _1)^{\alpha _1}\mathrm{}(\delta _n)^{\alpha _n}}{\alpha _1!\mathrm{}\alpha _n!(1!)^{\alpha _1}\mathrm{}(n!)^{\alpha _n}}.$$

There is also a morphism between the noncommutative Pinter Hopf algebra and the noncommutative algebra of diffeomorphisms, which was defined in . The relation between the Faà di Bruno Hopf algebra and the Connes-Moscovici algebra was also studied in .

## 6. Relation with renormalization

The renormalization of time-ordered products in configuration space was first considered by Bogoliubov, Shirkov and Parasiuk in  and presented in detail in the textbook . It was elaborated more precisely in  and received its Hopf algebraic formulation in . This approach was found particularly convenient for defining quantum field theories in curved spacetime . Here we show that the renormalization defined by Bogoliubov and Shirkov (see , section 26) or by Pinter  can be obtained from our construction. We first define the bialgebra of fields $``$.

### 6.1. The bialgebra of fields

We consider a finite set $`𝒟`$ of distinct points in $`^d`$. The bialgebra $``$ is generated as a vector space over $``$ by the symbols $`\varphi ^n(x)`$, where $`n`$ is a nonnegative integer and $`x𝒟`$. The basis elements $`\varphi ^n(x)`$ are called Wick monomials in the physical literature. The algebra product of $``$ is defined by $`\varphi ^n(x)\varphi ^m(y)=\delta _{x,y}\varphi ^{n+m}(x)`$ and its unit is $`1_{}=_{x𝒟}\varphi ^0(x)`$.

The coproduct of $``$ is the binomial coproduct

$$\delta _{}\varphi ^n(x)=\underset{k=0}{\overset{n}{}}\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n}{k}\right)\varphi ^k(x)\varphi ^{nk}(x),$$

and the counit is $`\epsilon _{}(\varphi ^n(x))=\delta _{n,0}`$. We define the degree of $`\varphi ^n(x)`$ to be $`n`$. The algebra $``$ is thus a graded commutative and cocommutative bialgebra. It is infinite dimensional but finite dimensional in each degree.

The symmetric algebra $`S()`$ has coproduct $`\delta `$ induced by the coproduct of $``$. More explicitly, the coproduct of $`a=\{\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\}`$ is

$`\delta a`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle \underset{i_1=0}{\overset{n_1}{}}}\mathrm{}{\displaystyle \underset{i_m=0}{\overset{n_m}{}}}\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n_1}{i_1}}\right)\mathrm{}\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n_m}{i_m}}\right)`$
$`\{\varphi ^{i_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{i_m}(x_m)\}\{\varphi ^{n_1i_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_mi_m}(x_m)\}.`$
The counit is defined by $`ϵ(1)=1`$ and $`ϵ(\varphi ^n(x))=\delta _{n,0}`$, and extended to $`S()`$ by linearity and multiplicativity. This coproduct and counit turn $`S()`$ into a commutative and cocommutative biagebra.

Remarks: (i) If we restrict the definition to a single point $`x`$, the commutative and cocommutative algebra $``$ can be identified with the algebra of Wick monomials at $`x𝒟`$ . (ii) The product in $`S()`$ is the usual normal product of quantum field theory . In other words, $`\{\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\}`$ would be written $`:\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1)\mathrm{}\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m):`$ in a quantum field theory textbook. The product in $`S()`$ can also be considered as a product of classical fields . (iii) In quantum field theory, the counit of $`S()`$ is called the vacuum expectation value : $`ϵ(a)=0|a|0`$ for $`aS()`$. (iv) Considering a finite number of points $`𝒟`$ instead of all the points of $`^d`$ is consistent with the framework of perturbative renormalization and with the fact that the renormalization Hopf algebra encapsulates the combinatorics of renormalization but not its analytical aspects. Taking all the points of $`^d`$ would make $``$ a non-locally-compact Hopf algebra, i.e. an object very difficult to handle.

### 6.2. Time-ordered product

To define the time-ordered product, we start from a linear map $`t:S()`$ such that $`t(1)=1`$. The time-ordered product $`T`$ is a linear map $`S()S()`$ defined by

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$$T(a)=t(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},$$

Note that $`t(a)`$ can be recovered from $`T(a)`$ by the relation $`t(a)=ϵ\left(T(a)\right)`$.

Remarks: (i) In quantum field theory, the map $`t`$ is defined in terms of Feynman diagrams , but the combinatorics of renormalization does not depend on the precise structure of $`t`$. (ii) Equation 13 was essentially given in the paper by Epstein and Glaser . In the physics literature, it is written

$`T\left(\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1)\mathrm{}\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\right)`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle \underset{i_1=0}{\overset{n_1}{}}}\mathrm{}{\displaystyle \underset{i_m=0}{\overset{n_m}{}}}\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n_1}{i_1}}\right)\mathrm{}\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n_m}{i_m}}\right)`$
$`0|T\left(\varphi ^{i_1}(x_1)\mathrm{}\varphi ^{i_m}(x_m)\right)|0:\varphi ^{n_1i_1}(x_1)\mathrm{}\varphi ^{n_mi_m}(x_m):.`$
### 6.3. Relation between time-ordered products

According to Bogoliubov and Shirkov , renormalization can be seen as a particular kind of transformation from a time-ordered product $`T`$ defined by a map $`t`$ to a time-ordered product $`\stackrel{~}{T}`$ defined by a map $`\stackrel{~}{t}`$. If $`a=\{\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\}`$, in standard quantum field theory $`t(a)`$ is defined in terms of regularized Feynman propagators and $`\stackrel{~}{t}(a)`$ supplies the counterterms that remove the singularities of $`t(a)`$; in the Epstein-Glaser approach the Feynman propagators are not regularized and $`t(a)`$ is well-defined only when all spacetime points $`x_i`$ are different, then $`\stackrel{~}{t}`$ is the extension of $`t`$ to the case of coinciding spacetime points. It is also common in physics to consider renormalization where $`t`$ and $`\stackrel{~}{t}`$ are both well-defined. This finite renormalization determines the effect of a change of the parameters (mass, coupling constant) describing the physical system.

The relation between time-ordered products $`T`$ and $`\stackrel{~}{T}`$ was discussed in . We shall follow the presentation given by Pinter . She considers linear maps $`O:S()`$. Apart from linearity, the only specific property of the maps $`O`$ is the fact that they are diagonally supported. This expresses the local nature of renormalization and means that $`O\left(\{\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\}\right)`$ is zero if the relation $`x_1=x_2=\mathrm{}=x_m`$ is not satisfied. The other properties of $`O`$ will be consequences of the fact that $`T`$ and $`\stackrel{~}{T}`$ are time-ordered products. In , Pinter uses the notation $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ for our $`O`$, but we changed to $`O`$ (as in ) to avoid confusion with the coproduct. The elements $`O(a)`$ are called *quasilocal operators* and denoted by $`\mathrm{\Lambda }`$ or $`\mathrm{\Delta }`$ by Bogoliubov and Shirkov . The purpose of this section is a description of $`O(a)`$ in terms of the coproduct of $`S()`$ and to show how the definition of $`O`$ must be modified to make it consistent with our algebraic approach.

The map $`O`$ is used to define $`\stackrel{~}{T}`$ from $`T`$. Equation 13 of Pinter’s paper  can be written (see also )

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$$\stackrel{~}{T}(a)=\underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_m}{}T\left(O(b^1)\mathrm{}O(b^k)\right),$$

where we use the notation of Equation 9: if $`a=\{\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\}`$ is an element of $`S()`$, we let $`b=(\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m))T()`$, and for $`\pi `$ a partition with blocks $`B_1,\mathrm{}B_k`$, we have $`b^i=\{b|B_i\}`$, for $`1ik`$. For notational convenience, we identify $`S^1()`$ with $``$ in the rest of the section.

We derive now some additional properties of $`O`$. In standard quantum field theory, a single vertex is not renormalized . Thus $`\stackrel{~}{T}(a)=T(a)=a`$ if $`a`$. This enables us to show that $`O(a)=a`$ if $`a`$: If $`a`$, then the sum in Equation 14 has only one term, corresponding to the partition $`\{\{1\}\}`$ of the set $`\{1\}`$, and thus $`\stackrel{~}{T}(a)=T\left(O(a)\right)`$. But $`O(a)`$ (by definition of $`O`$), and thus $`T\left(O(a)\right)=O(a)`$. The fact that $`\stackrel{~}{T}(a)=a`$ implies that $`O(a)=a`$.

If $`a=\{\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\}`$ with $`m>1`$, we use $`O(\{\varphi ^{n_i}(x_i)\})=\{\varphi ^{n_i}(x_i)\}`$ to rewrite Equation 14

$$\stackrel{~}{T}(a)=T(a)+T(O(a))+\underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_m^{}}{}T\left(O(b^1)\mathrm{}O(b^k)\right),$$

where $`\mathrm{\Pi }_m^{}`$ indicates set of all partitions of $`\{1,\mathrm{},m\}`$, except for $`\pi =\{\{1\},\mathrm{},\{m\}\}`$ and $`\pi =\{\{1,\mathrm{},m\}\}`$. But $`O(a)`$ and $`T`$ acts as the identity on $``$, thus

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$$\stackrel{~}{T}(a)=T(a)+O(a)+\underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_m^{}}{}T\left(O(b^1)\mathrm{}O(b^k)\right).$$

From this transformation formula and the support property of $`O`$ we deduce

###### Proposition 4.

If $`a=\{\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\}`$, then $`O(a)=c(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a_{\left(2\right)}`$, where $`c(a)=ϵ\left(O(a)\right)`$. Moreover, if $`m=1`$, then $`c(a)=ϵ(a)`$, if $`m>1`$, then $`c(a)`$ is supported on $`x_1=\mathrm{}=x_m`$ and can be obtained recursively from $`\stackrel{~}{t}`$ and $`t`$ by

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$$c(a)=\stackrel{~}{t}(a)t(a)\underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_m^{}}{}c(b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1})\mathrm{}c(b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{k})t(b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{k}).$$

###### Proof.

The proof is by induction. Take $`a=\{\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\}`$. If $`m=1`$, we have $`O(a)=a`$, so that $`O(a)=ϵ(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a_{\left(2\right)}`$ and $`c(a)=ϵ(a)`$. For $`m=2`$, the set $`\mathrm{\Pi }_m^{}`$ is empty, and thus Equation 15 yields $`\stackrel{~}{T}(a)=T(a)+O(a)`$. We know that $`T(a)=t(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a_{\left(2\right)}`$ and $`\stackrel{~}{T}(a)=\stackrel{~}{t}(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a_{\left(2\right)}`$, thus $`O(a)=c(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a_{\left(2\right)}`$ with $`c=\stackrel{~}{t}t`$. Now assume that the proposition is true up to $`m1`$ and take $`a=\{\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\}`$. In Equation 15, all $`O(b^i)`$ can be written $`c(b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{i})b_{\left(2\right)}`$ because the degree of $`b^i`$ is smaller than $`m`$. Hence, we can write

$`\stackrel{~}{T}(a)`$ $`=T(a)+O(a)+{\displaystyle \underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_m^{}}{}}{\displaystyle }c(b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1})\mathrm{}c(b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{k})T(b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{k}).`$
Equation 13 now yields

$`{\displaystyle }\stackrel{~}{t}(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a_{\left(2\right)}`$ $`=`$ $`{\displaystyle }t(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}+O(a)`$
$`+{\displaystyle \underset{\pi \mathrm{\Pi }_m^{}}{}}{\displaystyle }c(b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1})\mathrm{}c(b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{k})t(b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{k})b{}_{\left(3\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}b{}_{\left(3\right)}{}^{k}.`$
Since $`a=b^1\mathrm{}b^k`$, the factor $`b{}_{\left(3\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}b_{\left(3\right)}^k`$ can be written as $`a_{\left(3\right)}`$, and Equation 16 follows from the coassociativity of the coproduct.

The fact that $`O(a)`$ is supported on $`x_1=\mathrm{}=x_m`$ implies that $`c(a)=ϵ\left(O(a)\right)`$ is supported on $`x_1=\mathrm{}=x_m`$. Thus, $`c(a)=f(x_1)\delta _{x_2,x_1}\mathrm{}\delta _{x_m,x_1}`$, where $`f`$ is some function of $`x_1`$. In flat spacetime and in the absence of an external field, the system is translation invariant and $`f(x_1)`$ is a constant. ∎

Now comes a crucial step which is not apparent in the usual renormalization. In quantum field theory, when $`x_1=\mathrm{}=x_m`$, $`\{\varphi ^{n_1}(x_1),\mathrm{},\varphi ^{n_m}(x_m)\}`$ is identified with

$`{\displaystyle \underset{p=1}{\overset{m}{}}}\varphi ^{n_p}(x_1)`$ $`=`$ $`\varphi ^{n_1+\mathrm{}+n_m}(x_1),`$
where the product $``$ is in $``$. After of this identification, the expression $`O(a)=c(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a_{\left(2\right)}`$ is replaced by

(17) $`\mathrm{\Lambda }(a)={\displaystyle }c(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{}){\displaystyle }a{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{},`$
where the product means that, if $`a=y_1y_2\mathrm{}y_p`$ with $`y_i`$, then $`a=y_1y_2\mathrm{}y_p`$ where the product $``$ is in $``$. From our algebraic point of view, $`\mathrm{\Lambda }(a)`$ is different from $`O(a)`$. The map $`\mathrm{\Lambda }`$ is more satisfactory because $`a_{\left(2\right)}`$ belongs to $``$ and it is clear that $`\mathrm{\Lambda }`$ maps $`S()`$ to $``$. This was not the case with the expression $`O(a)=c(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a_{\left(2\right)}`$ because $`a_{\left(2\right)}`$ belongs to $`S()`$.

Therefore, in the following, we shall use $`\mathrm{\Lambda }`$ instead of $`O`$ to define the renormalized time-ordered product $`\overline{T}`$ as the linear operator $`S()S()`$

(18)
$$\overline{T}(a)=\underset{\pi }{}T\left(\mathrm{\Lambda }(b^1)\mathrm{}\mathrm{\Lambda }(b^k)\right).$$

If we expand the terms $`\mathrm{\Lambda }(b^i)`$ with Equation 17 we find

(19)
$$\overline{T}(a)=\underset{\pi }{}c(b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{1})\mathrm{}c(b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{k})T(b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{1}\mathrm{}b{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{k}).$$

Although $`\overline{T}(a)`$ would be undistinguishable from $`\stackrel{~}{T}(a)`$ in quantum field theory, these two quantities are different in our algebraic approach. The main difference is the fact that there is no map $`\overline{t}`$ such that $`\overline{T}(a)=\overline{t}(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a_{\left(2\right)}`$.

Equation 19 can be translated into the usual renormalization prescription by saying that each $`b^i`$ is a generalized vertex in the sense of Bogoliubov and Shirkov , the operation $`b_{\left(2\right)}^i`$ shrinks the points of $`b_{\left(2\right)}^i`$ into a single point leaving the external lines unchanged and the number $`c(b{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{i})`$ describes the counterterm associated to the generalized vertex.

### 6.4. Relation to the renormalization coproduct

It remains to relate the last result to the renormalization coproduct. If we compare expression 19 to the commutative renormalization coproduct (9), we see that

(20)
$$\overline{T}(a)=C(a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{})T(a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}),$$

where $`C(a)=c(a)`$ for $`aS()^+`$ and $`C(uv)=C(u)C(v)`$ for $`u,vS(S()^+)`$, and where we have used the alternate Sweedler notation $`\mathrm{\Delta }(a)=a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{}a_{\left[2\right]}`$ for the commutative renormalization coproduct. The quantum field relation $`\stackrel{~}{T}(a)=\stackrel{~}{t}(a{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a_{\left(2\right)}`$ becomes

$$\overline{T}(a)=C(a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{})t(a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}{}_{\left(1\right)}{}^{})a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{}{}_{\left(2\right)}{}^{}.$$

Renormalization can be seen from (at least) two points of view: (i) as a way to transform a time-ordered product $`T`$ into a renormalized time-ordered product $`\overline{T}`$, (ii) as a way to transform a bare Lagrangian (i.e. an element $`a`$ of $``$) into a renormalized Lagrangian. We establish now the connection between these two points of view. If $`a`$ we define $`a^nS^n()`$ by $`a^n=a\mathrm{}a`$ ($`n`$ times). With this notation we can define, in the sense of formal power series in a complex variable $`\lambda `$, the series $`\mathrm{e}^{\lambda a}=\lambda ^na^n/n!`$. We have

###### Proposition 5.

If $`a`$ is an element of $``$ and $`\lambda `$ a complex variable, then

(21)
$$\overline{T}\left(\mathrm{e}^{\lambda a}\right)=T\left(\mathrm{e}^{\lambda \overline{a}(\lambda )}\right),$$

where

(22)
$$\overline{a}(\lambda )=\underset{n=1}{\overset{\mathrm{}}{}}\frac{\lambda ^{n1}}{n!}\mathrm{\Lambda }(a^n)=\mathrm{\Lambda }\left(\frac{\mathrm{e}^{\lambda a}1}{\lambda }\right).$$

In this proposition, Equations 21 and 22 are understood in the sense of formal power series in $`\lambda `$. The first term of $`\overline{a}(\lambda )`$ is $`\mathrm{\Lambda }(a)=a`$, which is called the bare Lagrangian in quantum field theory. The next terms are called the counterterms of the Lagrangian. The proof of the proposition is straighforward:

###### Proof.

We expand $`\overline{T}\left(\mathrm{e}^{\lambda a}\right)`$ as

$$\overline{T}\left(\mathrm{e}^{\lambda a}\right)=1+\underset{n=1}{\overset{\mathrm{}}{}}\frac{\lambda ^n}{n!}\overline{T}(a^n).$$

To calculate $`\overline{T}(a^n)`$ we use Equation 19, noting that in this case the elements $`b^1,\mathrm{},b^kS()`$ depend only on the sizes of the blocks of $`\pi `$. The number of partitions of $`n`$ different objects with $`\alpha _i`$ blocks of size $`i`$ was given in Section 4.2. This gives us

$$\overline{T}(a^n)=\underset{\alpha }{}\frac{n!T\left(\mathrm{\Lambda }(a^1)^{\alpha _1}\mathrm{}\mathrm{\Lambda }(a^n)^{\alpha _n}\right)}{\alpha _1!\alpha _2!\mathrm{}\alpha _n!(1!)^{\alpha _1}(2!)^{\alpha _2}\mathrm{}(n!)^{\alpha _n}},$$

where the $`n`$-tuples $`\alpha `$ are described in section 4.1. Consider now $`g(\lambda )=\lambda \overline{a}(\lambda )`$. This is a formal exponential power series with coefficients $`g_n=\mathrm{\Lambda }(a^n)`$. Thus, $`T\left(\mathrm{e}^{\lambda \overline{a}(\lambda )}\right)=1+T\left(\mathrm{e}^{g(\lambda )}1\right)=1+T\left(f(g(\lambda ))\right)`$, where $`f(\lambda )=\mathrm{e}^\lambda 1`$ is an exponential power series with coefficients $`f_n=1`$. If we use the Faà di Bruno formula for the composition of series, we obtain the term of degree $`\lambda ^n`$ in the exponential series $`f(g(\lambda ))`$ as

$$\underset{\alpha }{}\frac{n!\mathrm{\Lambda }(a^1)^{\alpha _1}\mathrm{}\mathrm{\Lambda }(a^n)^{\alpha _n}}{\alpha _1!\alpha _2!\mathrm{}\alpha _n!(1!)^{\alpha _1}(2!)^{\alpha _2}\mathrm{}(n!)^{\alpha _n}}.$$

Therefore, the linearity of $`T`$ implies that

$$\overline{T}\left(\mathrm{e}^{\lambda a}\right)=1+\underset{n=1}{\overset{\mathrm{}}{}}\frac{\lambda ^n}{n!}\overline{T}(a^n)=1+T\left(f(g(\lambda ))\right)=T\left(\mathrm{e}^{\lambda \overline{a}(\lambda )}\right).$$

We have thus shown that the renormalization coproduct gives the same result as the Bogoliubov-Shirkov-Epstein-Glaser renormalization. On the other hand, it was proved in  and  that the latter renormalization coincides with the standard BPHZ renormalization. Thus, the renormalization coproduct recovers the standard renormalization of scalar fields.

The coassociativity of the renormalization coproduct means that the transitions from one renormalized time-ordered product to another can be composed associatively. In other words, if $`\overline{T}(a)=C(a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{})T(a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{})`$ and $`\overline{T}^{}(a)=C^{}(a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{})\overline{T}(a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{})`$, then $`\overline{T}^{}(a)=C^{\prime \prime }(a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{})T(a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{})`$ with $`C^{\prime \prime }(a)=C^{}(a{}_{\left[1\right]}{}^{})C(a{}_{\left[2\right]}{}^{})`$.

In this section we have assumed that $`T\left(\varphi ^n(x)\right)=\varphi ^n(x)`$. This is consistent with the use of the Pinter algebra. It was pointed out by Hollands and Wald  that renormalization at a point is necessary in curved spacetime and is given by

$$\mathrm{\Lambda }(\varphi ^n(x))=\underset{k=0}{\overset{n}{}}\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n}{k}\right)c\left(\varphi ^k(x)\right)\varphi ^{nk}(x).$$

This is exactly Equation 17. Thus, the renormalization of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes requires the commutative renormalization bialgebra instead of the Pinter Hopf algebra.

Many equations of this section are valid for any commutative bialgebra $``$: the definition (13) of the time-ordered product is the right coregular action of $`S()^{}`$ on $`S()`$; for $`cS()^{}`$, Equation 17 defines a map $`\mathrm{\Lambda }:S()`$, and the renormalized time-ordered product (18) is then well defined and satisfies Proposition 5.

Remark. If we take the realistic example of a quantum field theory with the interaction $`a=\varphi (x)^4dx`$ in four spacetime dimensions (in our framework, the integral should be replaced by a finite sum), the quasilocal operators take the explicit form :

$`\mathrm{\Lambda }(a^n)`$ $`=`$ $`C_1^n{\displaystyle \varphi ^2(x)dx}+C_2^n{\displaystyle \varphi ^4(x)dx}+C_3^n{\displaystyle \varphi (x)\mathrm{}\varphi (x)dx},`$
where $`C_i^n`$ are constants. In this equation, the first two quasilocal operators renormalize logarithmic divergences and are of the type treated in this paper. The third quasilocal operator involves derivatives of the fields. It is used to remove quadratic divergences and is absent in our approach. In other words, the present renormalization algebra can only deal with logarithmic divergences. To take care of higher divergences we should need to study the interplay between the renormalization algebra and derivations of this algebra. However, even at the quantum field level, the interplay between time-ordered products and derivatives is a delicate matter . Its Hopf algebraic interpretation is still an open problem. Within the Connes-Kreimer approach, this problem was solved in terms of an “external structure” .

## 7. Conclusion

We have constructed the renormalization bialgebra corresponding to any bialgebra $``$. In standard quantum field theory, the commutative Pinter Hopf algebra is generally used, but the noncommutative one may be relevant to the renormalization of some noncommutative quantum field theories .

At the mathematical level, the renormalization Hopf algebra found unexpected applications in number theory . Moreover, an intriguing connection was observed between the renormalization bialgebra $`T(T()^+)`$ and a construction involving operads . Such a connection is another manifestation of the deep mathematical meaning of renormalization. This operad is a realization of Kreimer’s suggestion that operads should play a role in renormalization theory . Kreimer himself defined an operad of renormalization based on Feynman diagrams .

## 8. Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to Gudrun Pinter for the detailed information on her results that she kindly gave us. We wish to thank Alessandra Frabetti, Muriel Livernet, Klaus Fredenhagen, Romeo Brunetti, Robert Oeckl, José M. Gracia-Bondia, Michael Dütsch, Ieke Moerdijk, Pepijn van der Laan, Bertfried Fauser, Frédéric Patras and Christian Voigt for helpful comments and discussions. A special thanks to Jean-Louis Loday for his constant help and encouragement. Finally, we thank the referee for many valuable comments and suggestions.