Wormhole Effects on Yang-Mills Theory

TL;DR

This paper investigates how wormhole effects influence $SO(3)$ Yang-Mills theory, computing wormhole wave functions and effective operators, revealing their impact on gauge coupling renormalization and higher derivative terms.

Contribution

It provides explicit calculations of wormhole wave functions and effective operators in $SO(3)$ YM theory, highlighting their effects on gauge coupling and higher derivative operators.

Findings

Wormhole wave functions for scalar, vector, tensor modes computed.

Wormhole effects lead to gauge coupling renormalization.

Higher derivative terms can be generated by tensor modes.

Abstract

In this paper wormhole effects on $SO(3)$ YM theory are examined. The wormhole wave functions for the scalar, the vector and the tensor expansion modes are computed assuming a small gauge coupling which leads to an effective decoupling of gravity and YM theory. These results are used to determine the wormhole vertices and the corresponding effective operators for the lowest expansion mode of each type. For the lowest scalar mode we find a renormalization of the gauge coupling from the two point function and the operators $\tr (F^3)$, $\tr (F^2\tilde{F})$ from the three point function. The two point function for the lowest vector mode contributes to the gauge coupling renormalization only whereas the lowest tensor mode can also generate higher derivative terms.