Orbifold equivalence for finite density QCD and effective field theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2011)034MaRDI QIDQ466733zbMATHFDO

Authors Aleksey Cherman, Brian C. Tiburzi

Publication date 27 October 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1639

zbMATH Keywords

1/N expansionchiral Lagrangianslattice gauge field theoriesspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: In the large N_c limit, some apparently different gauge theories turn out to be equivalent due to large N_c orbifold equivalence. We use effective field theory techniques to explore orbifold equivalence, focusing on the specific case of a recently discovered relation between an SO(2N_c) gauge theory and QCD. The equivalence to QCD has been argued to hold at finite baryon chemical potential, mu_B, so long as one deforms the SO(2N_c) theory by certain "double-trace" terms. The deformed SO(2N_c) theory can be studied without a sign problem in the chiral limit, in contrast to SU(N_c) QCD at finite mu_B. The purpose of the double-trace deformation in the SO(2N_c) theory is to prevent baryon number symmetry from breaking spontaneously at finite density, which is necessary for the equivalence to large N_c QCD to be valid. The effective field theory analysis presented here clarifies the physical significance of double-trace deformations, and strongly supports the proposed equivalence between the deformed SO(2N_c) theory and large N_c QCD at finite density.

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