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Physics Letters B 768 (2017) 305–308
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Physics Letters B
www.elsevier.com/locate/physletb
Discussion of the duality in three dimensional quantum field theory
Chen-Te Ma
Department of Physics and Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, ROC
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
6 January 2017
Received
in revised form 22 February 2017
Accepted
3 March 2017
Available
online 9 March 2017
Editor: N.
Lambert
Keywords:
Renormalization
group
Chern–Simons
theories
We discuss the duality in three dimensional quantum field theory at infrared limit. The starting point
is to use a conjecture of a duality between the free fermion and the interacting scalar field theories at
the Wilson–Fisher fixed point. The conjecture is useful for deriving various dualities in three dimensions
to obtain a duality web. The study is also interesting for understanding the dualities, or equivalence
of different theories from the perspective of the renormalization group flow. We first discuss the
“derivation” without losing the holonomy. Furthermore, we also derive these dualities from the mean-
field
study, and consider the extension of the conjecture or dualities at finite temperature.
© 2017 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP
3
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1. Introduction
Duality is an equivalence of two theories from some non-trivial
transformations. The duality is a useful tool to study theoretical
physics because we could use different mathematical ways to see
one physical phenomenon. Especially, we are particularly inter-
ested
in dualities between the weakly coupled and strongly cou-
pled
field theories to study the strongly coupled field theories from
the weakly coupled field theories.
Three
dimensional quantum field theory at infrared limit is par-
ticularly
interesting because of time reversal symmetry anomaly in
free Dirac fermion. The massless Dirac fermion at quantum level
is not a well-defined theory and the massive Dirac fermion the-
ory
could be related to the Abelian Chern–Simons term so one
way of finding a well-defined theory at infrared limit is to com-
bine
the massless Dirac fermion and the induced Abelian Chern–
Simons
term, which comes from the one-loop effective potential
of the Dirac fermion [1,2]. When one considers finite tempera-
ture,
the Dirac fermion is not enough to be combined only the
lowest non-trivial order term, the induced Abelian Chern–Simons
term, to obtain the gauge symmetry in the effective theory. Thus,
the resummation is necessary for restoring the gauge symmetry of
the effective theory at the Wilson–Fisher fixed point. The theory
at zero temperature is also conjectured to dual to the interact-
ing
scalar field theory at the Wilson–Fisher fixed point coupled to
the BF and Chern–Simons theories in the manifold with a chosen
spin structure. The conjecture at zero temperature could exhibit
the known particle-vortex duality [3] so it should be a concrete
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evidence. An interesting fact is that the conjecture also gives a
duality web to find the relation between the free theory and in-
teracting
theory [3–13].
In
this paper, we discuss the “derivation” (We use the “deriva-
tion”
because one derives these dualities from a conjecture.) of the
dualities in three dimensional quantum field theory. The “deriva-
tion”
starts from one conjecture to derive other dualities. When
one “derives” the dualities, one needs to integrate out gauge field
to solve da = db, where a and b are gauge fields. The general so-
lution
of da = db is a = b + df with a globally defined f if a
and
b satisfy the Dirac quantization condition. Roughly speaking,
we could set f = 0or zero holonomy due to the gauge trans-
formation.
When a theory only has dynamical gauge fields, then
the case is not problematic. If one theory has background gauge
fields, then setting zero homonomy is not always doable because
the gauge transformation could be performed only on the dynam-
ical
fields. However, we find that the non-trivial holonomy could
be absorbed by the scalar field, and the non-trivial holonomy does
not affect the dualities when a boundary term is absent, and all
fields are globally defined. The mean-field study is a powerful
tool to study the phase diagram so we consider the order pa-
rameter
¯
ψψ
in the fermion side. The above studies only focus on
the zero temperature. The phase diagram is particularly interest-
ing
when one considers the phase transition with respect to finite
temperature. The difficulty of the conjecture at finite temperature
is that it is necessary to include higher order terms beyond the
induced Abelian Chern–Simons term. The inclusion of the higher
order terms possibly affects the validity of the conjecture because
of the kinetic term of a gauge field. Thus, only the induced Abelian
Chern–Simons term with a temperature dependent coefficient is
considered in our conjecture. Although the effective theory loses
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SCOAP
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