NON-RENORMALIZATION THEOREM FOR THE GAUGE COUPLING IN 2+1 DIMENSIONS

Anton Kapustin, P. I. Pronin

Modern Physics Letters A · 1994 · 31 citations · 0 references

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We prove that the β-function of the gauge coupling in 2+1 dimensions gauge theory coupled to any renormalizable system of spinor and scalar fields is zero. This result holds both when the gauge field action is the Chern-Simons action and when it is the topologically massive action.