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Coleman-Weinberg potential in $p$-adic field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-10-27 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we study λϕ4\lambda \phi^4 scalar field theory defined on the unramified extension of p-adic numbers Qpn{\mathbb Q}_{p^n}. For different ``space-time'' dimensions nn, we compute one-loop quantum corrections to the effective potential. Surprisingly, despite the unusual properties of non-Archimedean geometry, the Coleman-Weinberg potential of p-adic field theory has a structure very similar to that of its real cousin. We also study two formal limits of the effective potential, p1p \rightarrow 1 and pp \rightarrow \infty. We show that the p1p\rightarrow 1 limit allows to reconstruct the canonical result for real field theory from the p-adic effective potential and provide an explanation of this fact. On the other hand, in the pp\rightarrow\infty limit, the theory exhibits very peculiar behavior with emerging logarithmic terms in the effective potential, which has no analog in real theories.

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@article{arxiv.2004.03014,
  title  = {Coleman-Weinberg potential in $p$-adic field theory},
  author = {Dmitry S. Ageev and Andrey A. Bagrov and Askar A. Iliasov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03014},
  year   = {2020}
}

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23 pages, no figures; comments are welcome

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