Boson-fermion duality in a gravitational background

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2018.10.001zbMATH Open1404.81332arXiv1802.06087OpenAlexW2807960425WikidataQ129110867 ScholiaQ129110867MaRDI QIDQ1634320FDOQ1634320

Authors: Yago Ferreiros, Eduardo Fradkin 

Publication date: 18 December 2018

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the $2+1$ dimensional boson-fermion duality in the presence of background curvature and electromagnetic fields. The main players are, on the one hand, a massive complex $|phi{|}^4$ scalar field coupled to a $U(1)$ Maxwell-Chern-Simons gauge field at level $1$, representing a relativistic composite boson with one unit of attached flux, and on the other hand, a massive Dirac fermion. We show that, in a curved background and at the level of the partition function, the relativistic composite boson, in the infinite coupling limit, is dual to a short-range interacting Dirac fermion. The coupling to the gravitational spin connection arises naturally from the spin factors of the Wilson loop in the Chern-Simons theory. A non-minimal coupling to the scalar curvature is included on the bosonic side in order to obtain agreement between partition functions. Although an explicit Lagrangian expression for the fermionic interactions is not obtained, their short-range nature constrains them to be irrelevant, which protects the duality in its strong interpretation as an exact mapping at the IR fixed point between a Wilson-Fischer-Chern-Simons complex scalar and a free Dirac fermion. We also show that, even away from the IR, keeping the $|phi{|}^4$ term is of key importance as it provides the short-range bosonic interactions necessary to prevent intersections of worldlines in the path integral, thus forbidding unknotting of knots and ensuring preservation of the worldline topologies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06087

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum Hall effecttopological field theorycomposite bosonfield theory duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

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