Fermions, mass-gap and Landau levels: gauge invariant Hamiltonian for QCD in D = 2+1

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/46/465401zbMATH Open1329.81360arXiv1504.07201OpenAlexW1825213093MaRDI QIDQ3458288FDOQ3458288

Abhishek Agarwal, V. P. Nair

Publication date: 18 December 2015

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

Abstract: A gauge-invariant reformulation of QCD in three spacetime dimensions is presented within a Hamiltonian formalism, extending previous work to include fermion fields in the adjoint and fundamental representations. A priori there are several ways to define the gauge-invariant versions of the fermions; a consistent prescription for choosing the fermionic variables is presented. The fermionic contribution to the volume element of the gauge orbit space and the gluonic mass-gap is computed exactly and this contribution is shown to be closely related to the mechanism for induction of Chern-Simons terms by parity-odd fermions. The consistency of the Hamiltonian scheme with known results on index theorems, Landau Levels and renormalization of Chern-Simons level numbers is shown in detail. We also comment on the fermionic contribution to the volume element in relation to issues of confinement and screening.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07201

zbMATH Keywords

mass gapgauge-invariant measureQCD(2+1)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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