Mass generation in the large N nonlinear sigma model

Mar, 1999
44 pages
Published in:
  • Commun.Math.Phys. 202 (1999) 89-126
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CPHT-219-0399

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Abstract:
We study the infrared behaviour of the two-dimensional Euclidean O(N) nonlinear sigma-Model with a suitable ultraviolet cutoff. It is proven that for a sufficiently large (but finite!) number N of field components the model is massive and thus has exponentially decaying correlation functions. We use a representation of the model with an interpolating bosonic field. This permits to analyse the infrared behaviour without any intermediate breaking of O(N)-symmetry. The proof is simpler than that of the corresponding result for the Gross-Neveu-Model.
Note:
  • 44 pages Report-no: CPHT 219 0399 Subj-class: Mathematical Physics
  • sigma model: nonlinear
  • expansion 1/N
  • mass generation
  • symmetry: O(N)
  • dimension: 2
  • infrared problem
  • expansion: cluster
  • regularization
  • Mayer expansion
  • correlation function: decay
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