Renormalisability of noncommutative GUT inspired field theories with anomaly safe groups

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that noncommutative GUT inspired field theories with anomaly safe groups are on-shell one-loop multiplicatively renormalisable at first order in the noncommutativity parameter theta, with no theta-dependent divergences in the gauge sector.

Contribution

It proves the on-shell one-loop multiplicative renormalisability of noncommutative GUT inspired theories with anomaly safe groups at first order in theta, including the gauge and matter sectors.

Findings

UV divergent parts can be renormalised with coupling, theta, and field renormalisations.

Theta-dependent counterterms vanish on-shell and have no physical effect.

Gauge sector receives no theta-dependent UV divergences at one-loop.

Abstract

We consider noncommutative GUT inspired field theories formulated within the enveloping-algebra formalism for anomaly safe compact simple gauge groups. Our theories have only gauge fields and fermions, and we compute the UV divergent part of the one-loop background-field effective action involving two fermionic fields at first order in the noncommutativity parameter theta. We show that, if the second-degree Casimir has the same value for all the irreps furnished by the fermionic multiplets of the model, then, that UV divergent part can be renormalised by carrying out multiplicative renormalisations of the coupling constant, theta and the fields, along with the inclusion of theta-dependent counterterms which vanish upon imposing the equations of motion. These theta-dependent counterterms have no physical effect since they vanish on-shell. This result along with the vanishing of the UV divergent part of the fermionic four-point functions leads to the unexpected conclusion that the one-loop matter sector of the background-field effective action of these theories is one-loop multiplicatively renormalisable on-shell. We also show that the background-field effective action of the gauge sector of the theories considered here receives no theta-dependent UV divergent contributions at one-loop. We thus conclude that these theories are on-shell one-loop multiplicatively renormalisable at first order in theta.