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arxiv: 1709.09756 · v2 · pith:Z4FVX766new · submitted 2017-09-27 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph· math-ph· math.MP· quant-ph

No radiative generation of Chern-Simons-like term in Lorentz-violating QED: dealing with IR divergences

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keywords chern-simons-likedivergencesgenerationtermfieldradiativeschemeviolating
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The issue intensively claimed in the literature on the generation of a CPT-odd and Lorentz violating Chern-Simons-like term by radiative corrections owing to a CPT violating interaction -- the axial coupling of fermions with a constant vector field $b_\m$ -- is mistaken. The presence of massless gauge field triggers IR divergences that might show up from the UV subtractions, therefore, so as to deal with the (actual physical) IR divergences, the Lowenstein-Zimmermann subtraction scheme, in the framework of BPHZL renormalization method, has to be adopted. The proof on the non generation of such a Chern-Simons-like term is done, independent of any kind of regularization scheme, at all orders in perturbation theory.

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