Vacuum energies of non-abelian string-configurations in 3+1 dimensions

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2010.01.020zbMATH Open1204.81150arXiv0912.3463OpenAlexW2085616095WikidataQ59277000 ScholiaQ59277000MaRDI QIDQ622656FDOQ622656

Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 3 February 2011

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

Abstract: We develop a method to compute the fermion contribution to the vacuum polarization energy of string--like configurations in a non--abelian gauge theory. This calculation has been hampered previously by a number of technical obstacles. We use gauge invariance of the energy and separation of length scales in the energy density to overcome these obstacles. We present a proof-of-principle investigation that shows that this energy is small in the MS-bar renormalization scheme. The generalization to other schemes is straightforward.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3463

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic stringJost functionnon-abelian gauge theoryvacuum polarization energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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