Gauge Covariance and the Chiral Condenate in QED3

AUTOR(ES)

Bashir, A., Raya, A.

FONTE

Brazilian Journal of Physics

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007-03

RESUMO

The ambiguities associated with the lack of gauge invariance in the non-perturbative truncations of Schwinger-Dyson equations (SDEs) are a challenging problem which has not yet been resolved in a decisive fashion. Pursuing this aim, we study dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in quantum electrodynamics in three space-time dimensions (QED3). We investigate the gauge dependence of the chiral condensate both in the quenched and the unquenched versions of the theory and emphasize the importance of taking into account the gauge covariance properties of the fermion propagator as dictated by its Landau-Khalatnikov-Fradkin transformation (LKFT). We present numerical solutions of the SDE of the fermion propagator which respect Ward-Green-Takahashi identities (WGTI) and LKFT simultaneously. As a striking consequence, we obtain a practically gauge independent chiral condensate.

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