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Non-commutative Gross-Neveu model at large N

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

The non-commutative O(N) Gross-Neveu model is solved in the large N limit in two and three space-time dimensions. The commutative version of the two dimensional model is a renormalizable quantum field theory, both in a coupling constant expansion and an expansion in 1/N. The non-commutative version has a renormalizable coupling constant expansion where ultraviolet divergences can be removed by adjusting counterterms to each order. On the other hand, in a previous work, we showed that the non-commutative theory is not renormalizable in the large N expansion. This is argued to be due to a combined effect of asymptotic freedom and the ultraviolet/infrared mixing that occurs in a non-commutative field theory. In the present paper we will elaborate on this result and extend it to study the large N limit of the three dimensional Gross-Neveu model. We shall see that the large N limit of the three dimensional theory is also trivial when the ultraviolet cutoff is removed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0103199,
  title  = {Non-commutative Gross-Neveu model at large N},
  author = {Emil T. Akhmedov and Philip DeBoer and Gordon W. Semenoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0103199},
  year   = {2009}
}

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23 pages

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