Topological lattice actions

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2010)020zbMATH Open1294.81142arXiv1009.2146MaRDI QIDQ407082FDOQ407082

Authors: W. Bietenholz, U. Gerber, M. Pepe, U.-J. Wiese 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider lattice field theories with topological actions, which are invariant against small deformations of the fields. Some of these actions have infinite barriers separating different topological sectors. Topological actions do not have the correct classical continuum limit and they cannot be treated using perturbation theory, but they still yield the correct quantum continuum limit. To show this, we present analytic studies of the 1-d O(2) and O(3) model, as well as Monte Carlo simulations of the 2-d O(3) model using topological lattice actions. Some topological actions obey and others violate a lattice Schwarz inequality between the action and the topological charge Q. Irrespective of this, in the 2-d O(3) model the topological susceptibility chi_t = l< Q^2 >/V is logarithmically divergent in the continuum limit. Still, at non-zero distance the correlator of the topological charge density has a finite continuum limit which is consistent with analytic predictions. Our study shows explicitly that some classically important features of an action are irrelevant for reaching the correct quantum continuum limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2146

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zbMATH Keywords

field theories in lower dimensionslattice quantum field theorynonperturbative effectssigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27)

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