Chiral modulations in curved space I: formalism

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2011)026zbMATH Open1294.81134arXiv1012.0463OpenAlexW3105240120MaRDI QIDQ407317FDOQ407317

A. Flachi, Takahiro Tanaka

Publication date: 29 August 2014

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

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to present a formalism that allows to handle four-fermion effective theories at finite temperature and density in curved space. The formalism is based on the use of the effective action and zeta function regularization, supports the inclusion of inhomogeneous and anisotropic phases. One of the key points of the method is the use of a non-perturbative ansatz for the heat-kernel that returns the effective action in partially resummed form, providing a way to go beyond the approximations based on the Ginzburg-Landau expansion for the partition function. The effective action for the case of ultra-static Riemannian spacetimes with compact spatial section is discussed in general and a series representation, valid when the chemical potential satisfies a certain constraint, is derived. To see the formalism at work, we consider the case of static Einstein spaces at zero chemical potential. Although in this case we expect inhomogeneous phases to occur only as meta-stable states, the problem is complex enough and allows to illustrate how to implement numerical studies of inhomogeneous phases in curved space. Finally, we extend the formalism to include arbitrary chemical potentials and obtain the analytical continuation of the effective action in curved space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0463

zbMATH Keywords

chiral Lagrangiansnonperturbative effectsrenormalization regularization and renormalonsthermal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat kernel (35K08) Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc. (37C30) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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