G/G models as the strong coupling limit of topologically massive gauge theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00050-3zbMATH Open0925.81323arXivhep-th/9609228OpenAlexW3102098065MaRDI QIDQ674536FDOQ674536

Authors: Pasquale Sodano, G. Grignani, G. W. Semenoff, O. Tirkkonen 

Publication date: 5 March 1997

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

Abstract: We show that the problem of computing the vacuum expectation values of gauge invariant operators in the strong coupling limit of topologically massive gauge theory is equivalent to the problem of computing similar operators in the $G_k/G$ model where $k$ is the integer coefficient of the Chern-Simons term. The $G_k/G$ model is a topological field theory and many correlators can be computed analytically. We also show that the effective action for the Polyakov loop operator and static modes of the gauge fields of the strongly coupled theory at finite temperature is a perturbed, non-topological $G_k/G$ model. In this model, we compute the one loop effective potential for the Polyakov loop operators and explicitly construct the low-lying excited states. In the strong coupling limit the theory is in a deconfined phase.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9609228

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zbMATH Keywords

topological field theoryVerlinde formulainteger Chern-Simons term coefficientsnontopological \(G_k/G\) modelPolyakov loop correlatorstopological massive Yang Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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