Physical (ir)relevance of ambiguities to Lorentz and CPT violation in QED
Feb, 200115 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 04 (2001) 032
e-Print:
- hep-th/0102021 [hep-th]
Report number:
- MIT-CTP-3081
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Abstract: (IOP)
We discuss the regularization and renormalization of QED with Lorentz and CPT violation, and argue that the coefficient of the Chern-Simons term is an independent parameter not determined by gauge invariance. We also study these issues in a model with spontaneous breaking of Lorentz and CPT symmetries and find an explicit relation with the ABJ anomaly. This explains the observed convergence of the induced Chern-Simons term.Note:
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- quantum electrodynamics
- violation: Lorentz
- violation: CPT
- regularization
- Chern-Simons term
- spontaneous symmetry breaking
- invariance: gauge
- anomaly
- radiative correction
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