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

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/46/465401MaRDI QIDQ3458288zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abhishek Agarwal, V. P. Nair

Publication date 18 December 2015

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

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)

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.

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