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arxiv: hep-th/9907045 · v1 · submitted 1999-07-07 · ✦ hep-th

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Solution of Schwinger-Dyson Equations for {cal PT}-Symmetric Quantum Field Theory

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In recent papers it has been observed that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, such as those describing $ig\phi^3$ and $-g\phi^4$ field theories, still possess real positive spectra so long as the weaker condition of ${\cal PT}$ symmetry holds. This allows for the possibility of new kinds of quantum field theories that have strange and quite unexpected properties. In this paper a technique based on truncating the Schwinger-Dyson equations is presented for renormalizing and solving such field theories. Using this technique it is argued that a $-g\phi^4$ scalar quantum field theory in four-dimensional space-time is renormalizable, is asymptotically free, has a nonzero value of $<0|\phi|0>$, and has a positive definite spectrum. Such a theory might be useful in describing the Higgs boson.

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