Lectures on the mass of topological solitons

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Authors: Alberto Alonso Izquierdo, W. García Fuertes, M. A. Gonzalez Leon, M. de la Torre Mayado, J. Mateos Guilarte, J. M. Muñoz-Castañeda 

Publication date: 16 November 2006

Abstract: In this series of lectures a method is developed to compute one-loop shifts to classical masses of kinks, multi-component kinks, and self-dual vortices. Canonical quantization is used to show that the mass shift induced by one-loop quantum fluctuations is the trace of the square root of the differential operator governing these fluctuations. Standard mathematical techniques are used to deal with some powers of pseudo-differential operators. Ultraviolet divergences are tamed by using generalized zeta function regularization methods and, then performing zero-point energy and mass renormalizations.

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