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What's Wrong with Pauli-Villars Regularization in $QED_{3}$ ?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

In this letter we argue that there is no ambiguity between the Pauli-Villars and other methods of regularization in (2+1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with respect to dynamical mass generation, provided we properly choose the couplings for the regulators.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9503224,
  title  = {What's Wrong with Pauli-Villars Regularization in $QED_{3}$ ?},
  author = {B. M. Pimentel and J. L. Tomazelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9503224},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

07 pages, Latex, no figures

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