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Renormalization on noncommutative torus

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-05-04 v3

Abstract

We study a self-interacting scalar φ4\varphi^4 theory on the dd-dimensional noncommutative torus. We determine, for the particular cases d=2d=2 and d=4d=4, the counterterms required by one-loop renormalization. We discuss higher loops in two dimensions and two-loop contributions to the self-energy in four dimensions. Our analysis points toward the absence of any problems related to the UV/IR mixing and thus to renormalizability of the theory. However, we find another potentially troubling phenomenon which is a wild behavior of the two-point amplitude as a function of the noncommutativity matrix θ\theta.

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@article{arxiv.1602.01479,
  title  = {Renormalization on noncommutative torus},
  author = {D. D'Ascanio and P. Pisani and D. V. Vassilevich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01479},
  year   = {2016}
}

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v2: comments and references added, v3: typos corrected; matches published version

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