Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2012-04-16
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
To appear in the special issue of J. Phys. A to honour J. S. Dowker
Scientific paper
We study a self-interacting scalar field theory in the presence of a \delta-function background potential. The role of surface interactions in obtaining a renormalizable theory is stressed and demonstrated by a two-loop calculation. The necessary counterterms are evaluated by adopting dimensional regularization and the background field method. We also calculate the effective potential for a complex scalar field in a non-simply connected spacetime in the presence of a \delta-function potential. The effective potential is evaluated as a function of an arbitrary phase factor associated with the choice of boundary conditions in the non-simply connected spacetime. We obtain asymptotic expansions of the results for both large and small \delta-function strengths, and stress how the non-analytic nature of the small strength result vitiates any analysis based on standard weak field perturbation theory.
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