Instantons and the infrared behavior of the fermion propagator in the Schwinger Model.pdf

a r X i v : 0 8 0 1 .4 3 9 9 v 2 [ h e p - t h ] 2 9 J a n 2 0 0 8 Instantons and the infrared behavior of the fermion propagator in the Schwinger Model Tomasz Radoz?ycki Department of Mathematical Methods in Physics, Warsaw University, Hoz?a 74, 00-682 Warsaw, Poland? Fermion propagator of the Schwinger Model is revisited from the point of view of its infrared behavior. The values of anomalous dimensions are found in arbitrary covariant gauge and in all contributing instanton sectors. In the case of a gauge invariant, but path dependent propagator, the exponential dependence, instead of power law one, is established for the special case when the path is a straight line. The leading behavior is almost identical in any sector, differing only by the slowly varying, algebraic prefactors. The other kind of the gauge invariant function, which is the amplitude of the dressed Dirac fermions, may be reduced, by the appropriate choice of the dressing, to the gauge variant one, if Landau gauge is imposed. PACS numbers: 11.10.Kk, 11.15.-q I. INTRODUCTION Two dimensional and fully solvable field theoretical models have become efficient testing laboratories for var- ious aspects of nonperturbative quantum field theory as well as in other branches of physics. One of the most pro- ductive examples of that kind is the so called Schwinger Model (SM) [1] i.e. a system consisting of a massless fermion interacting with abelian gauge field in two space- time dimensions, together with its subsequent modifica- tions (for instance N fermionic flavors, fermion given a nonzero mass or chiral version of the model). Among its nontrivial and noteworthy features one can mention confinement, the existence of topological sectors, sponta- neous chiral symmetry breaking and fermion condensate, gauge boson mass generation and axial anomaly. Be- side these peculiarities, essential mainly to high energy physics, the SM, either massless or massive, of one fla- vor or more (as well as other model