Renormalization in coupled Abelian selfdual Chern-Simons models

Nov, 1996
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 392 (1997) 123-128
e-Print:

Citations per year

1997199819992000200110
Abstract: (Elsevier)
An algebraic restriction of the nonabelian self-dual Chern-Simons-Higgs systems leads to coupled-abelian self-dual models with intricate mass spectra. The vacua are characterized by embeddings of SU (2) into the gauge algebra; and in the broken phases, the gauge and real scalar masses are related to the exponents of the gauge algebra. In this paper we compute the gauge-gauge-Higgs couplings in the broken phases and use this to compute the finite renormalizations of the Chern-Simons coefficient in the various vacua.
Note:
  • 16pp LaTeX; two figures; to appear in Physics Letters B
  • gauge field theory: U(1)
  • gauge field theory: SU(N)
  • Chern-Simons term
  • Higgs model
  • duality
  • mass spectrum
  • numerical calculations