Instanton determinant with arbitrary quark mass: WKB phase-shift method and derivative expansion

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.09.012zbMATH Open1247.81301arXivhep-th/0407222OpenAlexW2000067812MaRDI QIDQ452162FDOQ452162

Authors: Gerald V. Dunne, Jin Hur, Choonkyu Lee, Hyunsoo Min 

Publication date: 19 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The fermion determinant in an instanton background for a quark field of arbitrary mass is studied using the Schwinger proper-time representation with WKB scattering phase shifts for the relevant partial-wave differential operators. Previously, results have been obtained only for the extreme small and large quark mass limits, not for intermediate interpolating mass values. We show that consistent renormalization and large-mass asymptotics requires up to third-order in the WKB approximation. This procedure leads to an almost analytic answer, requiring only modest numerical approximation, and yields excellent agreement with the well-known extreme small and large mass limits. We estimate that it differs from the exact answer by no more than 6% for generic mass values. In the philosophy of the derivative expansion the same amplitude is then studied using a Heisenberg-Euler-type effective action, and the leading order approximation gives a surprisingly accurate answer for all masses.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0407222

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zbMATH Keywords

fermion determinantinstanton backgroundWKB phase-shift method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

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