Paper UTAS-PHYS-92-02

Non-perturbative behaviour in three dimensional QED

Authors: A.B Waites and R. Delbourgo.

Infrared singularities in QED_3 can be avoided by including at least one massless source which couples to the photon. Once that is arranged it is possible to obtain non-zero mass solutions for the source Green functions in scalar and (doubled) spinor electrodynamics, by using the Gauge Technique. We find the asymptotic results for the source spectral $\rho$ functions to be typically, $\rho(p) \simeq (p^2 - m^2)^{-1-e^2/c\pi^2}$ as $p \rightarrow m$, and $\rho(p) \simeq p^{-2} \exp(c'e^2/\pi p)$ as $p \rightarrow \infty$. The constants $c$ and $c'$ are respectively related to the number of charged massless particles and their ``spin'' character.


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