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Induced Chern-Simons and WZW action in Noncommutative Spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3 Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider noncommutative gauge theory with Dirac or Majorana fermions in odd dimensional spacetime and compute the induced noncommutative Chern-Simons action generated at 1-loop. We observe that the Chern-Simons term induced by a Dirac fermion has a smooth limit when th>0\th ---> 0, but there is a finite jump for the Chern-Simons term induced by a Majorana spinor. The induced Chern-Simons action from a Majorana spinor is nonvanishing even in the th>0\th ---> 0 limit, a discontinuity that shares a similar characteristic as the UV/IR singularity discovered originally by Minwalla, Raamsdonk and Seiberg. Properties of the noncommutative WZW action are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0003007,
  title  = {Induced Chern-Simons and WZW action in Noncommutative Spacetime},
  author = {Chong-Sun Chu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0003007},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LaTex, 13 pages, no figures; v2: refs added, add results for U(N) majorana spinors v3: clarification on p.5 and 6 concerning discussions of WZW. version to appear in NPB