On the consistency of a fermion-torsion effective theory

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2000/02/003zbMath0961.81053arXivhep-th/9910168OpenAlexW1990001476MaRDI QIDQ5930571

Ilya L. Shapiro, José A. Helayël, Guilherme de Berredo-Peixoto

Publication date: 22 April 2001

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the possibility to construct an effective quantum field theory for an axial vector coupled to a Dirac spinor field. A massive axial vector describes antisymmetric torsion. The consistency conditions include unitarity and renormalizability in the low-energy region. The investigation of the Ward identities and the one- and two-loop divergences indicate serious problems arising in the theory. The final conclusion is that torsion may exist as a string excitation, but there are very severe restrictions for the existence of a propagating torsion field, subject to the quantization procedure, at low energies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9910168

zbMATH Keywords

axial vectorDirac spinor fieldeffective quantum field theoryWard identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

Related Items (5)

PATH INTEGRAL AND PSEUDOCLASSICAL ACTION FOR SPINNING PARTICLE IN EXTERNAL ELECTROMAGNETIC AND TORSION FIELDS ⋮ Scale-invariant effective action with torsion ⋮ Beyond the MSW effect: neutrinos in a dense medium ⋮ Physical aspects of the space-time torsion ⋮ Consistency of an alternative CPT-odd and Lorentz-violating extension of QED

This page was built for publication: On the consistency of a fermion-torsion effective theory