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This article aims to give a short introduction into Hopf-algebraic aspects of renormalization, enjoying growing attention for more than a decade by now.
- As most available literature is concerned with the minimal subtraction scheme, we like to point out properties of the kinematic subtraction scheme which is also widely used in physics (under the names of MOM or BPHZ).
- In particular we relate renormalized Feynman rules $\phi_R$ in this scheme to the universal property of the Hopf algebra $H_R$ of rooted trees, exhibiting a refined renormalization group equation which is equivalent to $\phi_R: H_R \rightarrow K[x]$ being a morphism of Hopf algebras to the polynomials in one indeterminate.
- Upon introduction of analytic regularization this results in efficient combinatorial recursions to calculate $\phi_R$ in terms of the Mellin transform.