English
Related papers

Related papers: Heat kernel expansion and induced action for the m…

200 papers

We study IR/UV mixing effects in noncommutative supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with gauge group U(N) using background field perturbation theory. We compute three- and four-point functions of background fields, and show that the IR/UV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jonathan Levell , Gabriele Travaglini

Gauge symmetric methods for data representation and analysis utilize tools from the differential geometry of vector bundles in order to achieve consistent data processing architectures with respect to local symmetry and equivariance. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Jonas Cassel , Fabio Schlindwein , Peter Albers , Christoph Schnörr

In this review paper, we outline and exemplify the general method of constructing the supefield low-energy quantum effective action of supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theories with extended supersymmetry in the Coulomb phase, grounded upon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-17 I. L. Buchbinder , E. A. Ivanov

We adapt the Worldline Formalism to obtain resummed expressions for the effective action and the heat kernel of a quantum scalar field coupled to a Yukawa background. The resummation includes all the invariants built from powers, first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Filippo Fecit , Sebastián Franchino-Viñas , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

We consider the Dirac equation with an external Yang-Mills gauge field in a homogeneous space with an invariant metric. The Yang-Mills fields for which the motion group of the space serves as the symmetry group for the Dirac equation are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-06 A. I. Breev , A. V. Shapovalov

Based on quantum thermodynamic processes, we make a quantum-mechanical (QM) extension of the typical heat engine cycles, such as the Carnot, Brayton, Otto, and Diesel cycles, etc. The temperature is not included in these QM engine cycles,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-05 Jianhui Wang , Yongli Ma , Jizhou He

It is argued that, in the two dimensional principal chiral model, the Wess-Zumino term can be induced quantum mechanically, allowing the model with the critical value of the coupling constant $\lambda^2 = 8\pi/|k|$ to turn into the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Hitoshi Miyazaki , Izumi Tsutsui

We study generalized heat kernel coefficients, which appear in the trace of the heat kernel with an insertion of a first-order differential operator, by using a path integral representation. These coefficients may be used to study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-30 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Francesco Comberiati

We study an index of a transversal Dirac operator on an odd-dimensional manifold $X$ with locally free $\mathbb{S}^1$-action. One difficulty of using heat kernel method lies in the understanding of the asymptotic expansion as $t\to 0^+$. By…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Dung-Cheng Lin , I-Hsun Tsai

On the basis of the general considerations such as $R$-operation and Slavnov-Taylor identity we show that the effective action, being understood as Legendre transform of the logarithm of the path integral, possesses particular structure in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 Gorazd Cvetic , Igor Kondrashuk , Ivan Schmidt

Functional Renormalization Group Equations constitute a powerful tool to encode the perturbative and non-perturbative properties of a physical system. We present an algorithm to systematically compute the expansion of such flow equations in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-23 Dario Benedetti , Kai Groh , Pedro F. Machado , Frank Saueressig

We discuss a variation of quadratic gravity in which the gravitational interaction remains weakly coupled at all energies, but is assisted by a Yang-Mills gauge theory which becomes strong at the Planck scale. The Yang-Mills interaction is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 John F. Donoghue , Gabriel Menezes

We derive a general effective action for quark matter at nonzero temperature and/or nonzero density. For this purpose, we distinguish irrelevant from relevant quark modes, as well as hard from soft gluon modes by introducing two separate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Philipp T. Reuter , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

We analyze and give explicit representations for the effective abelian vector gauge field actions generated by charged fermions with particular attention to the thermal regime in odd dimensions, where spectral asymmetry can be present. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser , L. Griguolo , D. Seminara

This thesis explores the application of differential geometric and general relativistic techniques to deepen our understanding of quantum mechanical systems. We focus on three systems, employing these mathematical frameworks to uncover…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-19 Aonghus Hunter-McCabe , Brian P. Dolan , Peter Coles

We derive the microscopic spectral density of the Dirac operator in $SU(N_c\geq 3)$ Yang-Mills theory coupled to $N_f$ fermions in the fundamental representation. An essential technical ingredient is an exact rewriting of this density in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 P. H. Damgaard , J. C. Osborn , D. Toublan , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

Perturbing the Seiberg-Witten curves for N=2 U(N_c) and SU(N_c) super Yang-Mills theory with N_f<N_c flavours with a mass term for the adjoint field completely lifts the quantum vacuum degeneracy. The generated N=1 effective superpotential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yves Demasure

We calculate the effective potentials for scalar, Dirac and Yang-Mills fields in curved backgrounds using a new method for the determination of the heat kernel involving a re-summation of the Schwinger-DeWitt series. Self-interactions are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Frank Antonsen , Karsten Bormann

We develop a unified approach to both infrared and ultraviolet asymptotics of the fermion Green functions in the condensed matter systems that allow for an effective description in the framework of the Quantum Electrodynamics. By applying a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. V. Khveshchenko

We construct ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric low-energy effective action of $5D, {\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in $5D, {\cal N}=1$ harmonic superspace. It is obtained as a hypermultiplet completion of the leading $W \ln W$-term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 I. L. Buchbinder , E. A. Ivanov , I. B. Samsonov