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Scale and conformal invariance in Chern-Simons-matter field theory

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)
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  1. Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (USA)
  2. Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)
We study perturbative renormalization of {ital D}=3 Chern-Simons gauge theory coupled to scalar and fermionic matter. We show that in the non-Abelian case the coefficient of the Chern-Simons term has infinite renormalization and that both the matter and the non-Abelian gauge fields acquire nonvanishing anomalous dimensions at the two-loop level. However, the two-loop {beta} function of the gauge coupling always vanishes, indicating that scale and conformal invariance survive quantization and infinite renormalization.
OSTI ID:
5178491
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States) Vol. 44:6; ISSN PRVDA; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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