Quantization of the nonlinear sigma model revisited

DOI10.1063/1.4961153zbMATH Open1351.81089arXiv1408.4466OpenAlexW2963775223MaRDI QIDQ2820906FDOQ2820906

Authors: Timothy Nguyen 

Publication date: 12 September 2016

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

Abstract: We revisit the subject of perturbatively quantizing the nonlinear sigma model in two dimensions from a rigorous, mathematical point of view. Our main contribution is to make precise the cohomological problem of eliminating potential anomalies that may arise when trying to preserve symmetries under quantization. The symmetries we consider are twofold: (i) diffeomorphism covariance for a general target manifold; (ii) a transitive group of isometries when the target manifold is a homogeneous space. We show that there are no anomalies in case (i) and that (ii) is also anomaly-free under additional assumptions on the target homogeneous space, in agreement with the work of Friedan. We carry out some explicit computations for the $O(N)$-model. Finally, we show how a suitable notion of the renormalization group establishes the Ricci flow as the one loop renormalization group flow of the nonlinear sigma model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4466

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationgraded manifoldperturbative expansionWick's theoremnonlinear Sigma model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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