“…Ritus derived this relation in the context of QED using the renormalization group, with the assumption that the strong-field limit of the renormalized effective Lagrangian is mass-independent [1,2,3]. Another, equivalent, derivation which invokes the scale anomaly [4,5,6] in a massless limit, has been given in various forms by many authors [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. Also, other approaches have been developed for extracting the β function from the effective Lagrangian, using either the operator product expansion [15] or the worldline formalism [16].…”