One-loop Effective Potential in Higher-dimensional Yang-Mills Theory

DOI10.1002/(SICI)1521-3978(199904)47:4%3C433::AID-PROP433%3E3.0.CO;2-GMaRDI QIDQ4507554zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ivan G. Avramidi

Publication date 8 October 2000

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9604160

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

Abstract: We study the effective action in Euclidean Yang-Mills theory with a compact simple gauge group in one-loop approximation assuming a covariantly constant gauge field strength as a background. For groups of higher rank and spacetimes of higher dimensions such field configurations have many independent color components taking values in Cartan subalgebra and many ``magnetic fields in each color component. In our previous investigation it was shown that such background is stable in dimensions higher than four provided the amplitudes of ``magnetic fields do not differ much from each other. In present paper we calculate exactly the relevant zeta-functions in the case of equal amplitudes of ``magnetic fields. For the case of two ``magnetic fields with equal amplitudes the behavior of the effective action is studied in detail. It is shown that in dimensions $d=4,5,6,7$ $(mmod,8)$, the perturbative vacuum is metastable, i.e., it is stable in perturbation theory but the effective action is not bounded from below, whereas in dimensions $d=9,10,11$ $(mmod,8)$ the perturbative vacuum is absolutely stable. In dimensions $d=8$ $(mmod,8)$ the perturbative vacuum is stable for small values of coupling constant but becomes unstable for large coupling constant leading to the formation of a non-perturbative stable vacuum with nonvanishing ``magnetic fields. The critical value of the coupling constant and the amplitudes of the vacuum ``magnetic fields are evaluated exactly.

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