Equivalence of Sine-Gordon and the Thirring Model and Cumulative Mass Effects

May, 1976
25 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 15 (1977) 1684
Report number:
  • FUB/HEP 76/6

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Abstract: (APS)
We investigate the equivalence of the sine-Gordon and Thirring models on the basis of the short-distance behavior in the massive Thirring model. We find that for dimψ¯ψ≥1 there is a new additive renormalization effect originating from the occurrence of nonleading mass singularities in the spinor vacuum expectation values. In the sine-Gordon language this effect makes its appearance as a "cumulative" mass effect. It leads to a breakdown of the naive variational method.
  • Thirring model
  • sine-Gordon equation
  • FIELD THEORY: SHORT-DISTANCE BEHAVIOR
  • FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL: MASSIVE
  • RENORMALIZATION
  • EFFECT: MASS
  • MASS: EFFECT
  • FIELD THEORY: FERMION
  • FIELD THEORY: BOSON
  • Dirac equation