2005/10/31 by Marcus T. Grisaru, Marcus T Grisaru, Silvia Penati +1 · 26 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Action (physics) #Background field method #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Covariant transformation #Field (mathematics) #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Renormalization #Star (game theory) #Superspace #Supersymmetric gauge theory #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/02/043
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2006(02), 043 (Springer Nature) · Latex file, 59 pages, 10 figures, One reference added
openalex publication_date 2006/02/17 · arxiv created 2006/02/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present a systematic investigation of one-loop renormalizability for nonanticommutative N=1/2, U(N) SYM theory in superspace. We first discuss classical gauge invariance of the pure gauge theory and show that in contradistinction to the ordinary anticommutative case, different representations of supercovariant derivatives and field strengths do not lead to equivalent descriptions of the theory. Subsequently we develop background field methods which allow us to compute a manifestly covariant gauge effective action. One-loop evaluation of divergent contributions reveals that the theory simply obtained from the ordinary one by trading products for star products is not renormalizable. In the case of SYM with no matter we present a N=1/2 improved action which we show to be one-loop renormalizable and which is perfectly compatible with the algebraic structure of the star product. For this action we compute the beta functions. A brief discussion on the inclusion of chiral matter is also presented.