Thursday, August 30, 2012

1208.5948 (Raphael Flore)

Renormalization of the Nonlinear O(3) Model with Theta-Term    [PDF]

Raphael Flore
The renormalization of the topological term in the two-dimensional nonlinear O(3) model is studied by means of the Functional Renormalization Group. By considering the topological charge as a limit of a more general operator, it is shown that a finite multiplicative renormalization occurs in the extreme infrared. In order to compute the effects of the zero modes, a specific representation of the Clifford algebra is developed which allows to reformulate the bosonic problem in terms of Dirac operators and to employ the index theorem.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5948

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