scholarly journals ON THE 1-LOOP CALCULATIONS OF SOFTLY BROKEN FERMION-TORSION THEORY IN CURVED SPACE USING THE STÜCKELBERG PROCEDURE

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (08n09) ◽  
pp. 1570-1573
Author(s):  
G. DE BERREDO-PEIXOTO

The soft breaking of gauge or other symmetries is the typical Quantum Field Theory phenomenon. In many cases one can apply the Stückelberg procedure, which means introducing some additional field (or fields) and restore the gauge symmetry. The original softly broken theory corresponds to a particular choice of the gauge fixing condition. In this paper we use this scheme for performing quantum calculations for fermion-torsion theory, softly broken by the torsion mass in arbitrary curved spacetime.

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 956
Author(s):  
Dafne Carolina Arias-Perdomo ◽  
Adriano Cherchiglia ◽  
Brigitte Hiller ◽  
Marcos Sampaio

Quantum Field Theory, as the keystone of particle physics, has offered great insights into deciphering the core of Nature. Despite its striking success, by adhering to local interactions, Quantum Field Theory suffers from the appearance of divergent quantities in intermediary steps of the calculation, which encompasses the need for some regularization/renormalization prescription. As an alternative to traditional methods, based on the analytic extension of space–time dimension, frameworks that stay in the physical dimension have emerged; Implicit Regularization is one among them. We briefly review the method, aiming to illustrate how Implicit Regularization complies with the BPHZ theorem, which implies that it respects unitarity and locality to arbitrary loop order. We also pedagogically discuss how the method complies with gauge symmetry using one- and two-loop examples in QED and QCD.


1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 2857-2874
Author(s):  
IVER H. BREVIK ◽  
HERNÁN OCAMPO ◽  
SERGEI ODINTSOV

We discuss ε-expansion in curved space–time for asymptotically free and asymptotically nonfree theories. The existence of stable and unstable fixed points is investigated for fϕ4 theory and SU(2) gauge theory. It is shown that ε-expansion maybe compatible with aysmptotic freedom on special solutions of the RG equations in a special ase (supersymmetric theory). Using ε-expansion RG technique, the effective Lagrangian for covariantly constant gauge SU(2) field and effective potential for gauged NJL model are found in (4-ε)-dimensional curved space (in linear curvature approximation). The curvature-induced phase transitions from symmetric phase to asymmetric phase (chromomagnetic vacuum and chiral symmetry broken phase, respectively) are discussed for the above two models.


A momentum space formulation of curved space–time quantum field theory is presented. Such a formulation allows the riches of momentum space calculational techniques already existing in nuclear physics to be exploited in the application of quantum field theory to cosmology and astrophysics. It is demonstrated that one such technique can allow exact, or very accu­rate approximate, results to be obtained in cases which are intractable in coordinate space. An efficient method of numerical solution is also described.


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