The effect of geometry on charge confinement in three dimensions

2006/06/24 by H. Mohseni Sadjadi
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1209/epl/i2006-10128-3

published as Europhys.Lett.75:371-377,2006 · 8 pages. To be published in Europhysics Letters

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Abstract

We consider a three-dimensional BTZ black-hole (covering space) metric and show that in contrast to the flat case the Maxwell theory is not confining. We also study the effect of the curvature on the screening behavior of Maxwell-Chern-Simons model in this space-time.

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• Quantum Fields in Curved Space
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• Topologically massive gauge theories