Quantum mechanically induced Hopf term in the O(3) nonlinear sigma model

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00759-1zbMATH Open0947.81524arXivhep-th/9705183OpenAlexW2070971569MaRDI QIDQ1379151FDOQ1379151

Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Shogo Tanimura, Izumi Tsutsui

Publication date: 17 February 1998

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Hopf term in the $2+1$ dimensional O(3) nonlinear sigma model, which is known to be responsible for fractional spin and statistics, is re-examined from the viewpoint of quantization ambiguity. It is confirmed that the Hopf term can be understood as a term induced quantum mechanically, in precisely the same manner as the $heta$-term in QCD. We present a detailed analysis of the topological aspect of the model based on the adjoint orbit parametrization of the spin vectors, which is not only very useful in handling topological (soliton and/or Hopf) numbers, but also plays a crucial role in defining the Hopf term for configurations of nonvanishing soliton numbers. The Hopf term is seen to arise explicitly as a quantum effect which emerges when quantizing an $S^1$ degree of freedom hidden in the configuration space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705183

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10)

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