370 research outputs found
Effective potential in Lorentz-breaking field theory models
We calculate explicitly the one-loop effective potential in different
Lorentz-breaking field theory models. First, we consider a Yukawa-like theory
and, then, some examples of Lorentz-violating extensions of scalar QED. We
observed, for the extended QED models, that the resulting effective potential
converges to the known result in the limit in which Lorentz-symmetry is
restored. Besides, the one-loop corrections to the effective potential in all
the cases we studied depend on the background tensors responsible for the
Lorentz symmetry violation. This have consequences in physical quantities like,
for example, in the induced mass due to Coleman-Weinberg mechanism.Comment: Version accepted for publication in EPJ
Implicit Regularization and Renormalization of QCD
We apply the Implicit Regularization Technique (IR) in a non-abelian gauge
theory. We show that IR preserves gauge symmetry as encoded in relations
between the renormalizations constants required by the Slavnov-Taylor
identities at the one loop level of QCD. Moreover, we show that the technique
handles divergencies in massive and massless QFT on equal footing.Comment: (11 pages, 2 figures
Four-dimensional aether-like Lorentz-breaking QED revisited and problem of ambiguities
In this paper, we consider the perturbative generation of the CPT-even
aether-like Lorentz-breaking term in the extended Lorentz-breaking QED within
different approaches and discuss its ambiguities.Comment: 15 pages, version accepted to EPJ
Dual embedding of the Lorentz-violating electrodinamics and Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization
Modifications of the electromagnetic Maxwell Lagrangian in four dimensions
have been considered by some authors. One may include an explicit massive term
(Proca) and a topological but not Lorentz-invariant term within certain
observational limits.
We find the dual-corresponding gauge invariant version of this theory by
using the recently suggested gauge embedding method. We enforce this
dualisation procedure by showing that, in many cases, this is actually a
constructive method to find a sort of parent action, which manifestly
establishes duality. We also use the gauge invariant version of this theory to
formulate a Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization and present a detailed discussion
on the excitation spectrum.Comment: 8 page
Residual gauge-invariance in a massive Lorentz-violating extension of QED
We reassess an alternative CPT-odd electrodynamics obtained from a
Palatini-like procedure. Starting from a more general situation, we analyze the
physical consistency of the model for different values of the parameter
introduced in the mass tensor. We show that there is a residual gaugeinvariance
in the model if the local transformation is taken to vary only in the direction
of the Lorentz-breaking vector
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