Effective field theories for rooted staggered fermions

Understand

We extend the construction of the Symanzik effective action to include rooted staggered fermions, starting from a generalization of the renormalization-group approach to rooted staggered fermions.

• The Symanzik action, together with the usual construction of a partially quenched chiral effective theory from a local, partially quenched, fundamental theory, can then be used to derive the chiral effective theory.
• The latter reproduces rooted staggered chiral perturbation theory.