Correlation functions in the non-commutative Wess-Zumino-Witten model

• Autores: Lugo, Adrián René
• Año de publicación: 2001
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Quantum field theories; Chern-Simons theories
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

We develop a systematic perturbative expansion and compute the one-loop two-points, three-points and four-points correlation functions in a non-commutative version of the U (N) Wess-Zumino-Witten model in different regimes of the θ-parameter showing in the first case a kind of phase transition around the value θc = √p2 + 4m2/(λ2p), where λ is a ultraviolet cut-off in a Schwinger regularization scheme. As a by-product we obtain the functions of the renormalization group, showing they are essentially the same as in the commutative case but applied to the whole U (N) fields; in particular there exists a critical point where they are null, in agreement with a recent background field computation of the beta-function, and the anomalous dimension of the Lie algebra-valued field operator agrees with the current algebra prediction. The non-renormalization of the level k is explicitly verified from the four-points correlator, where a left-right non-invariant counter-term is needed to render finite the theory, that it is however null on-shell. These results give support to the equivalence of this model with the commutative one. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.
Fil: Lugo, Adrián René. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de la Plata; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Física La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Física La Plata; Argentina