ONE-LOOPTOPOLOGICALMASSINQED2+1 INVARIANTREGULARIZATIONSCHEMES WITHINABROADCLASSOFGAUGE.pdfVIP

ONE-LOOP TOPOLOGICAL MASS IN QED2+1WITHIN A BROAD CLASS OF GAUGEINVARIANT REGULARIZATION SCHEMESJ. NOVOTNYNuclear Centre, Faculty of Matematics and Physics,Charles University,V Hole1ovièkách 2,CS-180 00 Prague 8,CzechoslovakiaAn explicit calculation of the one-loop topological mass term withina broad class of gauge invariant regularization schemes developed re-cently is presented for (2+1) dimensional QED. This provides an uni-form description of the results obtained recently in the literature andan explanation of their regularization scheme dependence. The Pauli-Villars and dimensional regularization is dicussed in more detail in thiscontext and an alternative formulation of dimensional regularizationin (2+1) dimensions is described.The (2+1)-dimensional quantum gauge theories have attracted much in-terest in recent years for various reasons14. One of the interesting featuresof such theories is the possible presence of the gauge invariant mass term forthe abelian gauge eld (the topological mass term)2, LCS =  @AA ,which is connected with the existence of the three-dimensional Levi-Civitatensor  and is therefore an inherent attribute of three dimensions. Evenif this term is not present in the tree-level action, it may be generated radia-tively through the coupling of the gauge elds to the massive fermions. Theappearance of the topological mass then depends on the fermion content ofthe theory as well as on the regularization procedure used to treat the super-cially divergent one-loop Feynman graphs. The latter dependence has beenstudied recently using various types of analytic regularization5;6 \nonlocalregularization7 and Pauli-Villars regularization2;5, applied to the one-loopvacuum polarization graph in the theory with one fermion eld describedby two component spinor; note that the corresponding representation of theDirac matrices is1 0 = 3; 1 = i1; 2 = i2; (1)1 where i are the Pauli matrices. a The results can be summarized as follows.All