Spontaneous parity breaking in three-dimensional non-Abelian gauge theory
Journal
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Journal Volume
54
Journal Issue
2
Pages
1826-1830
Date Issued
1996
Author(s)
Abstract
We study the parity-odd part of the gauge field two-point function in the effective action in three-dimensional non-Abelian gauge theory with both Higgs fields and the Chern-Simons term. It is shown that, contrary to a previous proposal, there is no hint of spontaneous parity breakdown up to one-loop level, if care is taken to turn off the Chern-Simons coefficient before expanding the effective action into local terms.
Type
journal article