Non-perturbative renormalization for lattice massive QED$_2$: the ultraviolet problem

TL;DR

This paper develops a non-perturbative framework for lattice massive QED$_2$, proving convergence of the effective action and establishing properties that could extend to realistic 4d gauge theories like the Electroweak sector.

Contribution

It introduces a convergent expansion for the effective action of lattice massive QED$_2$ with preserved Ward Identities, enabling a complete model construction and insights applicable to 4d theories.

Findings

Effective action expansions are convergent for small coupling.

Bare parameters are cut-off independent.

The approach provides a pathway to analyze 4d gauge theories.

Abstract

We consider a lattice regularization, preserving Ward Identities (WI) and with a Wilson term, of the Massive QED$_2$, describing a fermion with mass $m$ and charge $\mathsf{e}$ interacting with a vector field with mass $M$, in the regime $m\ll M\ll a^{-1}$ ($a$ being the lattice spacing) which is the suitable one to mimic a realistic 4d massive gauge theory like the Electroweak sector. The presence of the lattice and of the mass $m$ breaks any solvability property. In this paper we prove that the effective action obtained after the integration of the ultraviolet degrees of freedom is expressed by expansions which are convergent for values of the coupling $|\mathsf{e}|\le \mathsf{e}_0$, with $\mathsf{e}_0$ independent on $a$ and $m$, and with cut-off-independent bare parameters. By combining this result with the analysis of the infrared part in previous papers we get a complete construction of the model and a number of properties whose analogous are expected to hold in 4d. The analysis is done by integrating out the bosons and reducing to a fermionic theory; however, with respect to the case with momentum regularizations (which break essential features like the WI), the resulting effective fermionic action has not a simple form and this requires the developments of new methods to get the necessary bounds.