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Title: Parity-violating electromagnetic interactions in three-dimensional QED at finite temperature

Journal Article · · Physical Review D

We study the parity-breaking terms generated by the box diagram in (2+1)-dimensional thermal QED. These lead, in the long wave limit, to a gauge invariant extensive action, which behaves as 1/T at high temperature. In contrast, the effective action in the static limit involves leading nonextensive terms proportional to 1/T{sup 3} at high temperature, which violate large gauge invariance. We derive a nonlinear large gauge Ward identity, which relates the leading static terms of different order in perturbation theory and whose solution coincides with the all order effective action proposed earlier.

Sponsoring Organization:
(US)
OSTI ID:
40205155
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 62, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.085012; Othernumber: PRVDAQ000062000008085012000001; 044018PRD; PBD: 15 Oct 2000; ISSN 0556-2821
Publisher:
The American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English