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Scalar field theory at finite temperature is investigated via an improved renormalization group prescription which provides an effective resummation over all possible non-overlapping higher loop graphs. Explicit analyses for the lambda…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Sen-Ben Liao , Michael Strickland

Applied to field theory, the familiar symplectic technique leads to instantaneous Hamiltonian formalism on an infinite-dimensional phase space. A true Hamiltonian partner of first order Lagrangian theory on fibre bundles $Y\to X$ is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-07 G. Sardanashvily

We study the reduction of non-autonomous regular Lagrangian systems by symmetries, which are generated by vector fields associated with connections in the configuration bundle of the system $Q\times\real\to\real$. These kind of symmetries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda , N. Román-Roy , F. J. Yániz-Fernández

The ordinary Landau problem consists of describing a charged particle in time-independent magnetic field. In the present case the problem is generalized onto time-dependent uniform electric fields with time-dependent mass and harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Latévi Mohamed Lawson

A consistent quantization scheme for imaginary-mass field is proposed. It is related to an appriopriate choice of the synchronization procedure (definition of time), which guarantee an absolute causality. In that formulation a possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 J. Rembielinski

A general formalism is developed that allows the construction of a field theory on quantum spaces which are deformations of ordinary spacetime. The symmetry group of spacetime (Poincar\' e group) is replaced by a quantum group. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marija Dimitrijevic , Larisa Jonke , Lutz Möller , Efrossini Tsouchnika , Julius Wess , Michael Wohlgenannt

We present a non-perturbative regularization scheme for Quantum Field Theories which amounts to an embedding of the originally unregularized theory into a spacetime with an extra compactified dimensions of length L ~ Lambda^{-1} (with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. D. Fosco , F. A. Schaposnik

$S$-matrix elements are invariant under field redefinitions of the Lagrangian. They are determined by geometric quantities such as the curvature of the field-space manifold of scalar and gauge fields. We present a formalism where scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-22 Andreas Helset , Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar

Free vector fields, satisfying the Lorenz condition, are investigated in details in the momentum picture of motion in Lagrangian quantum field theory. The field equations are equivalently written in terms of creation and annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Bozhidar Z. Iliev

We review the mathematically rigorous formulation of the quantum theory of a linear field propagating in a globally hyperbolic spacetime. This formulation is accomplished via the algebraic approach, which, in essence, simultaneously admits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert M. Wald

We consider, in Minkowski spacetime, higher-order Maxwell Lagrangians with terms quadratic in the derivatives of the field strength tensor, and study their degrees of freedom. Using a 3+1 decomposition of these Lagrangians, we extract the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-30 Aimeric Colléaux , David Langlois , Karim Noui

The purpose of this article is to initiate a study of a class of Lorentz invariant, yet tractable, Lagrangian Field Theories which may be viewed as an extension of the Klein-Gordon Lagrangian to many scalar fields in a novel manner. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 David B. Fairlie , Tatsuya Ueno

Free scalar field theory on 2 dimensional flat spacetime, cast in diffeomorphism invariant guise by treating the inertial coordinates of the spacetime as dynamical variables, is quantized using LQG type `polymer' representations for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alok Laddha , Madhavan Varadarajan

We present the solution space of the field equations in the Einstein-\ae ther theory for the case of a $FLRW$ and a LRS Bianchi Type $III$ space-time. We also find that there are portions of the initial parameters space for which no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 M. Roumeliotis , A. Paliathanasis , Petros A. Terzis , T. Christodoulakis

The spacetime dependent lagrangian formalism of references [1-2] is used to obtain a classical solution of Yang-Mills theory. This is then used to obtain an estimate of the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field, viz. $\phi_{a}=A/e$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Bhattacharyya , Debashis Gangopadhyay

The perturbative framework of the space-time non-commutative real scalar field theory is formulated, based on the unitary S-matrix. Unitarity of the S-matrix is explicitly checked order by order using the Heisenberg picture of Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Chaiho Rim , Yunseok Seo , Jae Hyung Yee

One of the most well known relativistic field theory models is the Thirring model (TM). Its realization can demonstrate the famous prediction for the renormalization of mass due to interactions. However, experimental verification of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-22 Dimitris G. Angelakis , MingXia Huo , Darrick Chang , Leong Chuan Kwek , Vladimir Korepin

A method for finding the renormalization group (RG) improved effective Lagrangian for a massive interacting field theory in curved spacetime is presented. As a particular example, the $\lambda \varphi^4$-theory is considered and the RG…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 E. Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov

In a thermal field theory, the cumulants of the momentum distribution can be extracted from the dependence of the Euclidean path integral on a shift in the fields built into the temporal boundary condition. When combined with the Ward…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-30 Leonardo Giusti , Harvey B. Meyer

We retreat the well-known Einstein-Cartan theory by slightly modifying the covariant derivative of spinor field by investigating double cover of the Lorentz group. We first write the Lagrangian consisting of the Einstein-Hilbert term, Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-03 Muzaffer Adak , Nese Ozdemir , Ozcan Sert