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Soft-photon exponentiation beyond the quenched approximation in QED$_{2+1}$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-03-17 v5

Abstract

We discuss the infrared and ultraviolet behavior of the fermion propagator in (2+1)-dimensional QED based on spectral representation.If we choose soft-photon exponentiation to include all orders of soft-photon emission by electron,its spectral function may be written as eFe^{F},where FF is a model independent spectral function of the lowest order in the coupling constant.We evaluate the function FF in an analytic way and show its short and long distance behavior with an infrared cut-off μ\mu.At short distance function FF has linear and logarithmic infrared divergence.However in the long distance limit function FF vanishes.So that only short distance part of eFe^{F} is modified from unity.We may avoid the linear divergence by the choice of the gauge d=1d=-1,where dd is a covariant gauge fixing parameter.In this gauge the spectral function vanishes in the limit of zero bare photon mass μ\mu.We overcome this difficulty by adding continuous spectrum of massive fermion loop to photon spectral function ρ(μ2)\rho(\mu^{2}),where μ\mu has the role of invariant mass for fermion-antifermion pair and is larger than 2m.2m.So that unquenched fermion spectral function survibes.For the application of chiral symmetry breaking we carefully studied the position space propagator SF(0)S_{F}(0).At least for weak coupling these values agree quite well with that obtained in Dyson-Schwinger equation with proper vertex correction.We also study these parameter as a function of the flavour number NN and t'Hooft coupling α=e2N/8π\alpha=e^{2}N/8\pi for strong coupling case.

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@article{arxiv.1401.7149,
  title  = {Soft-photon exponentiation beyond the quenched approximation in QED$_{2+1}$},
  author = {Yuichi Hoshino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.7149},
  year   = {2014}
}

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28 pages,RevTex4,4 figures,typos corrected

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