Critical behavior of (2+12+1)-dimensional QED: 1/Nf1/N_f corrections in an arbitrary nonlocal gauge

Sep 22, 2016
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 94 (2016) 11, 114011,
  • Phys.Rev.D 99 (2019) 5, 059902 (addendum)
  • Published: Dec 12, 2016
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Abstract: (APS)
Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking (DχSB) is studied within (2+1)-dimensional QED with N four-component fermions. The leading and next-to-leading orders of the 1/N expansion are computed exactly. The analysis is carried out in an arbitrary nonlocal gauge. Resumming the wave-function renormalization constant at the level of the gap equation yields a strong suppression of the gauge dependence of the critical fermion flavor number, Nc(ξ), where ξ is the gauge-fixing parameter, which is such that DχSB takes place for N
Note:
  • (v2) Accepted for publication in PRD. 8 pages, 2 figures; 2 references added. (v1) LaTeX file with feynMF package. 6 pages, 2 figures; includes Supplemental Material (3 pages). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1605.01911
  • gauge: nonlocal
  • dimension: 3
  • expansion 1/N
  • fermion: wave function
  • fermion: flavor
  • wave function: renormalization
  • higher-order: 1
  • higher-order: 0
  • symmetry breaking: chiral
  • gauge dependence