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Singular Behaviour of Electrons and of Composite Fermions in a Finite Effective Field S. Curnoe and P. C. E. Stamp Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1, Canada to the 2-d semiconductor, then s = 2, whereas s = 3 for We calculate the self-energy Σn (ǫ) of fermions in Landau the completely unscreened case. If the CF self-energy is level n, in a finite field. Two cases are considered, in which calculated perturbatively, to first order in D11 (q, ω), then fermions couple either to gauge fluctuations (as in the com- one finds, at ν = 1/2, that at T = 0 posite fermion gauge theory) or to phonons, as an example of a Fermi liquid. Perturbative calculations of the compos- (iΩ /ǫ)1/3ǫ s = 3 0 6 ite fermion spectrum show an unphysical suppression of the Σ(p, ǫ ) ∼ (2) ǫ log(ǫ) s = 2 9 quasiparticle spectral weight at the composite fermion lev- 9 els. We argue that this problem might be resolved by a non- 1 perturbative calculation; alternatively, the system might be for p near the ν = 1/2 Fermi surface. Non-perturbative n unstable. calculations have also been done of Σ(ǫ) and of the re- a sponse functions using eikonal expansions [9],