Topological Renormalisation of the O(3) Sigma Model
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✦ hep-th
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divergencefieldmodelsectorsigmatopologicalarbitrarinessarbitrary
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We show that the one-instanton sector moduli-space divergence of the O(3) Sigma Model leads to an unacceptable dependence of Green's functions on the arbitrary way that the field is split into a quantum fluctuation about a classical background. Since the divergence is associated with the degeneration of field configurations to those of the zero-instanton sector this arbitrariness may be cancelled by a `topological counter-term' which we construct.
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