A nonunitary version of massless quantum electrodynamics possessing a critical point

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/7/001zbMATH Open1055.81637arXivhep-th/9802184OpenAlexW2062014395MaRDI QIDQ4258356FDOQ4258356

Authors: Kimball A. Milton, Carl M. Bender 

Publication date: 1999

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

Abstract: Recently, it has been observed that a quantum field theory need not be Hermitian to have a real, positive spectrum. What seems to be required is symmetry under combined parity and time-reversal transformations. This idea is extended to massless electrodynamics, in which the photon couples to the axial-vector current with an imaginary coupling constant. The eigenvalue condition necessary for the finiteness of the theory can now be solved; the value for the charge appears to be stable order-by-order. Similarly, the semiclassical Casimir model for the fine-structure constant yields a positive value.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9802184

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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