Gauge invariance of a critical number of flavours in QED3

Details Gauge invariance of a critical number of flavours in QED3 Gauge invariance of a critical number of flavours in QED3

2009-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/0905.1337v1

Few Body Syst.46:229-237,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

7 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00601-009-0069-9

The fermion propagator in an arbitrary covariant gauge can be obtained from the Landau gauge result via a Landau-Khalatnikov-Fradkin transformation. This transformation can be written in a practically useful form in both configuration and momentum space. It is therefore possible to anticipate effects of a gauge transformation on the propagator's analytic properties. These facts enable one to establish that if a critical number of flavours for chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement exists in noncompact QED3, then its value is independent of the gauge parameter. This is explicated using simple forms for the fermion-photon vertex and the photon vacuum polarisation. The illustration highlights pitfalls that must be avoided in order to arrive at valid conclusions. Landau gauge is seen to be the covariant gauge in which the propagator avoids modification by a non-dynamical gauge-dependent exponential factor, whose presence can obscure truly observable features of the theory.

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