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One-loop corrections in the z=3 Lifshitz extension of QED

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-11-30 v2

Abstract

In this work we study a z=3 Horava-Lifshitz-like extension of QED in (3+1) dimensions. We calculate the one-loop radiative corrections to the two and three-point functions of the gauge and fermion fields. Such corrections were achieved using the perturbative approach and a dimensional regularization was performed only in the spatial sector. Renormalization was required to eliminate the divergent contributions emergent from the photon and electron self-energies and from the three-point function. We verify that the one-loop vertex functions satisfy the usual Ward identities and using renormalization group methods we show that the model is asymptotically free.

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@article{arxiv.1809.05692,
  title  = {One-loop corrections in the z=3 Lifshitz extension of QED},
  author = {M. Gomes and F. Marques and T. Mariz and J. R. Nascimento and A. Yu. Petrov and A. J. da Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.05692},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

20 pages, final version accepted to PRD