Radiative corrections in bumblebee electrodynamics
R. V. Maluf,1, ∗ J. E. G. Silva,2, † and C. A. S. Almeida1, ‡
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Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC),
Departamento de Fı́sica, Campus do Pici,
Fortaleza - CE, C.P. 6030, 60455-760 - Brazil
arXiv:1506.07232v2 [hep-th] 24 Jul 2015
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Indiana University Center for Spacetime Symmetries, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Abstract
We investigate some quantum features of the bumblebee electrodynamics in flat spacetimes. The
bumblebee field is a vector field that leads to a spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. For a
smooth quadratic potential, the massless excitation (Nambu-Goldstone boson) can be identified as
the photon, transversal to the vacuum expectation value of the bumblebee field. Besides, there is
a massive excitation associated with the longitudinal mode and whose presence leads to instability
in the spectrum of the theory. By using the principal-value prescription, we show that no one-loop
radiative corrections to the mass term is generated. Moreover, the bumblebee self-energy is not
transverse, showing that the propagation of the longitudinal mode can not be excluded from the
effective theory.
PACS numbers: 11.30.Cp, 11.15.-q, 11.30.Qc, 12.60.-i
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I.
INTRODUCTION
At the Planck scale, several theories consider the possibility of the quantum spacetime
structure leads to violation of the Lorentz symmetry. In the noncommutative theories, the
spacetime has a minimum length [1] whereas in the Hořava-Lifshitz gravity the space and
time covariance is no longer valid [2]. Furthermore, the additional vector and tensor fields
in the string theory may acquire a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value yielding to a
preferred direction in the spacetime [3, 4].
An effective quantum field theory that accounts for the Lorentz violating effects and
preserves the gauge structure of the standard model (SM) of the fundamental interactions
is called the standard model extension (SME) [5]. The SME neatly incorporates violation
of Lorentz symmetry by adding terms to the standard model Lagrangian, which explicitly breaks the Lorentz symmetry at the particle frame. The Lorentz violating terms are
constructed from the vacuum expectation value of the tensor fields that are constant background fields. The search for Lorentz violating signals covers all interactions sectors; the
gauge sector [6–9], the fermion sector [10, 11], and extensions involving gravity [12–20]. For
a comprehensible analysis of the Lorentz violating data, see for instance the Ref. [21].
A dynamical violation of the Lorentz symmetry can be achieved by means of spontaneous
symmetry breaking mechanism [3, 12–14, 22–25]. The simplest field theories involving a
vector that acquires nonzero vacuum expectation values are the so-called bumblebee models
[3, 12–14]. The Lorentz violating is trigged by a vector field, called the bumblebee field,
whose minimum of the potential gives rise to the background field. Amongst the possible
choices for the potential are the smooth quadratic [3, 13, 14], the Lagrange-multiplier [14]
and the nonpolynomial potentials [23]. Kostelecký and Samuel proposed the usual Maxwelllike kinetic term for the bumblebee field and a smooth quadratic potential [3]. The presence
of the potential also breaks the gauge symmetry of the vector field.
In the Kostelecký-Samuel (KS) model, the quadratic bumblebee Lagrangian expanded
around the vacuum value bµ has the form of the Maxwell Lagrangian added with an axial
gauge fixing term [3, 13, 14, 23, 24]. Furthermore, the excitations of the bumblebee field
can be cast into two classes: two Nambu-Goldstone (NG) modes, transverse to the vacuum
expected value of the bumblebee field, and one massive or longitudinal mode [3, 13, 14, 23,
24]. At tree level in the linear regime, the two NG modes can be identified with the two
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polarization modes of the photon [14]. In turn, the massive mode appears as a tachyonic
ghost excitation and the associated Hamiltonian of the model is unbounded below [24, 26].
Nevertheless, a appropriated choice of the initial conditions for the field configurations can
yield regions of phase space that are ghost-free and have Hamiltonian positive [24].
An important question is how the quantum effects affect the stability of the KS theory
and the propagation of the unphysical modes. In the work of Ref. [25], the canonical
quantization of the KS model in flat Minkowski spacetime was addressed. The Stückelberg
method was employed to define an extended Fock space such that the second-class constraints
are converted into the first-class ones. In the restricted Fock space for the physical states,
the free KS model turns out to be unitary and equivalent to the Maxwell electrodynamics
in the temporal gauge [25]. However, to the best of our knowledge, the radiative corrections
induced by the interaction terms in the KS model were not addressed in the literature yet.
In this letter, we study the radiative corrections to the bumblebee field in the KS model
in the flat spacetime. We started with the analysis of the free propagation modes of the
bumblebee field at tree level. We show that the massive longitudinal excitation does not
represent a physical propagating mode. In the sequel, the quantum effects are accessed
exploring the similarity between the bumblebee model at the linear approximation and the
Maxwell theory in the axial gauge. We evaluate the one-loop radiative corrections due to the
bumblebee self-energy and we find that no correction for the mass term of the longitudinal
mode is generated. However, the transversality condition pµ Πµν (p) = 0 is not satisfied,
which confirms that the massive mode is naturally going to be excited by the interactions
terms.
This letter is organized as the following. In Sec. II, we define and review the main
properties of the KS model and study the free propagation of the bumblebee field in the
absence of matter. In Sec. III, we study the one-loop radiative corrections of the bumblebee
self-energy. Finally, our conclusions, as well as perspectives are outlined in section IV.
II.
BUMBLEBEE ELECTRODYNAMICS
We begin presenting some classical results on a particular class of bumblebee models,
namely the Kostelecký-Samuel (KS) model.
The Lagrangian for the KS model that describes the dynamics of the bumblebee field is
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given by [3, 12–14]
1
λ
LB = − Bµν B µν − (B µ Bµ ± b2 )2 − B µ Jµ ,
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4
(1)
where λ is a dimensionless positive coupling, b2 is a positive constant with squared mass
dimension, Jµ is supposed to be a conserved current formed of matter fields that are also
the source for the Bµ field, and the field-strength tensor Bµν is defined as
Bµν = ∂µ Bν − ∂ν Bµ .
(2)
The smooth quadratic potential term V = − λ4 (B µ Bµ ± b2 )2 is responsible for triggering
the mechanism of spontaneous Lorentz violations. The bumblebee field takes on a nonzero
vacuum value hBµ i = bµ for a local minimum at B µ Bµ ± b2 = 0, such that bµ bµ = ∓b2 with
the ∓ sign meaning if bµ is spacelike or timelike [3, 12, 13]. Also, note that the potential
ensures explicit violation of U(1) gauge symmetry.
As discussed in Ref. [14], in theories with spontaneous Lorentz violation, the potential
propagating modes can be classified into five types: gauge modes, Nambu-Goldstone (NG),
massive modes, Lagrange-multiplier modes, or spectator modes. In particular, for the theory
defined by the Lagrangian density in Eq. (1), only the NG and massive modes are present.
The NG modes arise if the excitations satisfy the condition V ′ (X) = 0, where the prime
denotes the derivative with respect to X = B µ Bµ ± b2 . Consequently, the massive mode is
an excitation associated with a non-minimal value of the potential, and it is observed when
V ′ (X) 6= 0.
The stability and the unitarity of the Hamiltonian associated with the Lagrangian (1)
were studied in Refs. [24–26]. Besides the massless NG mode, the KS model also possesses
a propagating massive tachyonic excitation which leads to instabilities. However, one can
consistently choose a set of constraints which reduce the phase space to a region where the
Hamiltonian is positively definite [24]. In this restricted phase space the tachyon does not
propagate and the free model is classically equivalent to the Maxwell theory in a nonlinear
gauge [24]. By means of the Stückelberg method and a suitable choice of the creation and
annihilation operators, it is possible to define a reduced Fock space which is ghost-free and
whose physical states have positive Hamiltonian [25].
In the sequel, we use the Lagrangian approach to show that no physical propagating
massive mode can be achieved.
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Since our main objective is to study the dynamics of the bumblebee field Bµ around the
vacuum, we adopt the following decomposition
Bµ = bµ + βµ .
(3)
In terms of the excitation βµ , the bumblebee Lagrangian (1) can be rewritten as
λ
1
L̃B = − βµν β µν − (4βµ bµ βν bν + βµ β µ βν β ν + 4βµ β µ βν bν ) − βµ J µ − bµ J µ ,
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4
(4)
where βµν = ∂µ βν −∂ν βµ is a field strength for the bumblebee excitation [25]. The interaction
vertices of the theory are generated by the trilinear and quadrilinear terms of (4). Note that
a mass term arise naturally and involves the mass matrix mµν = 2λbµ bν . From the quadratic
terms of the Lagrangian density (4), we can extract the free bumblebee propagator given by
(pµ bν + pν bµ ) (p2 + 2λb2 ) µ ν
i
µν
µν
g −
(5)
DF (p, b) = − 2
+
p p ,
p + iǫ
b·p
2λ(b · p)2
which is similar to the gauge field propagator in the axial-gauge [23, 25, 27–30].
The first term in (5) has a pole at p2 = 0, and it represents a massless excitation. Since the
transverse mode is massless, we identify this term with the transverse mode. The double
pole b · p = 0 indicates a non-physical mode induced by the Lorentz-violating term and
whence, it is naturally associated with the massive longitudinal excitation.
In order to analyse the free propagation of the bumblebee field, we focus our attention
only on the quadratic terms of L̃B . The equation of motion reduces to
∂ µ βµν − 2λβ µ bµ bν = 0.
(6)
Since the background vector bµ defines a preferred direction in space, we can split the
excitations βµ into transverse (Aµ ) and longitudinal (β) modes by means of the orthogonal
projection operators [13, 14]
||
Pµν
=
bµ bν
bα bα
and
⊥
Pµν
= gµν −
bµ bν
,
bα bα
(7)
such that
βµ ≡ Aµ + β b̂µ ,
(8)
⊥ ν
Aµ = Pµν
β (transverse mode),
(9)
|| ν
β b̂µ = Pµν
β (longitudinal mode),
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(10)
√
with Aµ bµ = 0 and b̂µ = bµ / b2 , so that b̂µ b̂µ = ∓1. With these definitions the equation of
motion (6) can be written as
∂ µ Fµν + β b̂ν − ∂ν ∂ µ β b̂µ − 2λβ b̂µ bµ bν = 0,
(11)
where Fµν = ∂µ Aν − ∂ν Aµ . Applying ∂ ν on Eq. (11) we obtain the following constraint
bν ∂ ν β = 0.
(12)
Substituting the constraint (12) in (11) and using the projectors (7) to separate the
equations of Aµ and β, we come to the following equations of motion for each mode:
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bµ bν ∂ν ∂ λ Aλ = 0,
b2
1 µ
b ∂µ ∂ ν Aν = 0.
β − 2λbα bα β −
bα b̂α
Aµ − ∂µ ∂ ν Aν +
(13)
(14)
The constraint bν ∂ ν β = 0 imposes the additional condition for the massive mode β in the
momenta space
bµ pµ = 0.
(15)
The condition (15) along with the equation of motion for the β yield to the following dispersion relation for the massive mode
p2 + 2λbα bα = 0,
(16)
such that the associated mass to this excitation is give by
Mβ2 = −2λbα bα .
(17)
The constraint (15) and the squared mass parameter (17) provide important features
of the massive excitation. For a time-like background vector bµ , the longitudinal mode β
has a negative mass and represents a tachyonic mode. Considering a space-like vector bµ ,
albeit the massive mode has a real mass, this excitation is also a non-physical mode. In
fact, assuming bµ = (0, 0, 0, b), the constraint (15) implies that the massive mode could
propagate as a plane wave with constant amplitude in the z direction. In order to satisfy
the asymptotic boundary conditions as z → ±∞, this amplitude must be set to zero. Thus,
no configuration can yield to a physical massive propagation [14].
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III.
RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS
In this section, we study the radiative corrections to the two-point vertex function of the
βµ field. The main objective is to verify if the mass term associated with the longitudinal
mode receives a correction able to modify their non-physical nature.
The classical Lagrangian defined in Eq. (4) is not gauge invariant and to implement its
quantization we do not add any gauge fixing term, and the corresponding Faddeev–Popov
ghost fields. Following a perturbative approach, the Lagrangian density will be written as
LB = L0 + Lint , where
1
L0 = − βµν β µν − λβµ bµ βν bν ,
4
(18)
λ
Lint = − (βµ β µ βν β ν + 4βµ β µ βν bν ) ,
4
(19)
and
represent the free and interaction terms, respectively. Note that the possible couplings
matter fields are disregarded here.
The Feynman rules of this model are summarized in Fig. (1).
p
m
n
i
(pµ bν + pν bµ ) (p2 + 2λb2 ) µ ν
µν
+
p p ,
= − 2
g −
p + iǫ
b·p
2λ(b · p)2
(20)
m
p
q
n
= −2iλbα (gµν gαλ + gµλ gνα + gµα gνλ ) ,
k
(21)
l
= −2iλ (gµν gαβ + gµα gνβ + gµβ gνα ) .
(22)
Figure 1: Feynman Rules for the bumblebee model
As we are interested in the radiative corrections to the bumblebee mass, we restrict
ourselves to the one-loop calculation to the self-energy functions. The relevant diagrams are
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k
k
p
µ
p
µ
−p
ν
−p
ν
k+p
(a) massless tadpole diagram
(b) One-loop self-energy diagram
Figure 2: Bumblebee two-point vertex functions
shown in Fig. (2). These amplitudes are given by
ˆ
1
d4 k
(a)
λ
Πµν (p, b) = (−2iλ)
g
D
(k)
+
2D
(k)
,
µν
µν
λ
2
(2π)4
(23)
and
(b)
Πµν
(p, b)
ˆ
d4 k
1
2 δ γ
[(Dµγ (k)Dδν (k + p) + Dµν (k)Dδγ (k + p)
= (−2iλ) b b
2
(2π)4
+ Dµσ (k)Dδσ (k + p)gνγ + Dνρ (k)Dγρ (k + p)gµδ + k ↔ k + p
+ D ρσ (k)Dρσ (k + p)gµδ gνγ ] .
(24)
It is worthwhile to note that by simple power-counting arguments, the one-loop integrals
above may have ultraviolet divergences up to fourth order. Furthermore, the presence of
unphysical poles (b · k)−β , β = 1, 2..., requires a consistent prescription to extract only the
physical content of the theory. A satisfactory prescription for this type of spurious poles
has been developed in a long time ago on the quantization of Yang-Mills theory in the
axial gauge [27–30]. The general axial gauge is defined by the condition nµ Aaµ = 0 with
nµ = (n0 , n) being a constant four-vector, and it is implemented by the addition of the
gauge-fixing Lagrangian density
LGF = −
1
(n · Aa )2 , α → 0,
2α
where α is the gauge parameter [29]. For this type of gauge, the gauge-field propagator has
poles at n · k = 0 and we can identify the transverse modes (9) with the photon field [13, 23].
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One method that was widely used to deal appropriately with these poles is the so-called
principal-value (PV) prescription [30], defined as
1
1
1
1
→ lim
+
,
(n · k)β
2 µ→0 (n · k + iµ)β (n · k − iµ)β
(25)
with µ > 0 and β = 1, 2, ..., N. It has been shown that the PV prescription is consistent
with the unitarity and renormalization properties of Yang-Mills theories and also preserves
the Slavnov-Taylor identities at the one-loop level [27, 28].
For our present purpose, we follow the calculation procedure described in Refs. [29, 30]
for the treatment of one-loop axial-type integrals with n2 6= 0. The corresponding analytical
(a)
(b)
expressions for Πµν and Πµν are shown in A. The divergent parts of the momentum integrals
are evaluated by dimensional regularization in the PV prescription, whose formulas are
presented in Refs. [29, 30]. For simplicity, we consider λ small and add all contributions
up to order λ. The diagram (a) turns out to be zero since it is constituted by a tadpole
diagram with the massless integrals proportional to
ˆ
dD k
, α, β = 0, 1, 2, ...
(k 2 )α (b · k)β
that vanishes by dimensional regularization. The non-trivial contribution is only due to the
diagram (b), which is given by
(b2 p2 + (b · p)2 ) µ ν
8λ b · p µ ν
ν µ
(b p + b p ) −
b b Idiv ,
Πµν (p, b) =
3
b2
b4
(26)
where Idiv = i/8π 2 ǫ with ǫ = 4 − D (D is the dimension of the spacetime).
We note that unlike the Yang-Mills in the axial gauge, the divergent part of the bumblebee
self-energy (26) is not transversal, pµ Πµν (p, b) 6= 0. The non-transversality of the self-energy
can be interpreted as result of the excitation of the massive mode, as verified in the canonical
formalism [25]. On the other hand, no radiative correction to the mass term has been
generated for both the NG or the massive mode. Moreover, the one-loop correction has
not produced a higher derivative or a non-local divergent term as a function of the external
momentum.
Another noteworthy result is that, despite the fact that the bumblebee electrodynamics is
superficially nonrenormalizable, no additional counterterm is required to remove the divergences and to make the quadratic effective action finite. Indeed, using the decomposition of
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the field βµ in transverse and longitudinal modes (8), the Lagrangian (18) can be rewritten
as
1
1
1
1
L0 = − F µν Fµν − F µν ∂[µ β b̂ν] − ∂µ β∂ µ β + ∂ µ β∂ ν β b̂µ b̂ν − λb2 β 2 .
4
2
2
2
In turn, the two-point function Πµν (26) contributes to the effective action as
1 µν
λ 1
1
1 µ ν
µ
− F ∂[µ β b̂ν] − ∂µ β∂ β + ∂ β∂ β b̂µ b̂ν ,
Ldiv = 2
3π ǫ
2
2
2
(27)
(28)
such that the divergent terms in (28) can be renormalized by counterterms obtained from
the free classical Lagrangian (18).
IV.
CONCLUSIONS
In this letter, we addressed the radiative corrections of the bumblebee electrodynamics
in flat spacetime. We have chosen the KS model, where the dynamics is governed by a
Maxwell-like kinetic term and the Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken by a smooth
quadratic potential.
The vacuum expected value of the bumblebee field gives rise to a preferred direction,
in which the bumblebee excitations can be projected. The transverse mode is massless,
and it can be identified with the Nambu-Goldstone mode, whereas the longitudinal mode is
massive and represents a non-physical degree of freedom.
Employing the principal value (PV) prescription, which is suitable to deal with the poles
of the form (b · p), we obtained the one-loop correction to the bumblebee self-energy. It
turned out that the self-energy is not transversal. This is related to the lack of gauge
symmetry which allows excitations for the massive mode. Furthermore, the quadratic part
of the effective action is free of non-local terms and renormalizable at one-loop order. Even
though the smooth quadratic potential breaks the gauge symmetry, no radiative corrections
was produced for the NG mode mass or for the massive mode. As a matter of fact, the
massive mode remains propagating at one-loop order, which indicates that the non-physical
mode detected in the analysis of KS model (tree-level) [14, 21] persists at the quantum level.
As future developments of the quantum features of the bumblebee electrodynamics we
point out the analysis of process involving coupling with a matter source. Another noteworthy perspective to be explored is if the requirements to avoid the instabilities in the theory,
as carry out in Ref. [25], are preserved at the quantum level by loop calculations.
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Acknowledgments
This work was partially supported by the Brazilian agencies Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nı́vel Superior (CAPES) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientı́fico e Tecnológico (CNPq). J. E. G. Silva acknowledges the Indiana University
Center for Spacetime Symmetries for the kind hospitality.
Appendix A: One loop integrals
The analytic expressions for the one-loop self-energy diagrams contributing to the twopoint effective action shown in Figs. (2a) and (2b) are:
(a)
Πµν
(p, b)
=
ˆ
dD k
λb2
k2
λD
2λk (µ bν) k µ k ν (2b2 λ + k 2 )
µν
−
g
−
− 2 + 2
−
,
(2π)D
(b · k)2 2(b · k)2
k
k b·k
k 2 (b · k)2
(A1)
and
Π(b)
µν (p, b)
=
ˆ
dD k µν
µ ν
(µ ν)
µ ν
(µ ν)
(µ ν)
µ ν
g
Π
+
p
p
Π
+
p
k
Π
+
k
k
Π
+
p
b
Π
+
k
b
Π
+
b
b
Π
,
g
pp
pk
kk
pb
kb
bb
(2π)D
(A2)
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with the coefficients defined by the following expressions
λ
λ
+
,
2
k
(k + p)2
λb2
1
Πpp =
+
,
2
2
(k + p) [b · (k + p)]
2[b · (k + p)]2
1
1
λb2
+
+
,
Πpk =
2
2
(k + p) [b · (k + p)]
2b · kb · (k + p) 2[b · (k + p)]2
λb2
λb2
1
1
1
Πkk = 2
+
+
+
+
,
2
2
2
2
k (b · k)
(k + p) [b · (k + p)]
b · kb · (k + p) 2(b · k)
2[b · (k + p)]2
λb2 k · (k + p)
2λ
k · (k + p)
λ
+
−
+
,
Πpb = 2
k b · (k + p) b · k(k + p)2 [b · (k + p)]2 b · (k + p)(k + p)2 2b · k[b · (k + p)]2
λ
λb2 k · (k + p)
λb2 k · (k + p)
2λ
+
+
+
Πkb = − 2
k b · k k 2 b · (k + p) k 2 (b · k)2 b · (k + p) b · k(k + p)2 [b · (k + p)]2
2λ
k · (k + p)
k · (k + p)
λ
−
+
+
,
+
2
2
2
b · k(k + p)
(k + p) b · (k + p) 2(b · k) b · (k + p) 2b · k[b · (k + p)]2
2λ2 b4 [k · (k + p)]2
4λ2 b2 k · (k + p)
2λ2 b2
+
−
Πbb = 2
k [b · (k + p)]2 k 2 (k + p)2 (b · k)2 [b · (k + p)]2 k 2 (k + p)2 b · kb · (k + p)
2λ2 D
4λ2
2λ2 b2
λb2 [k · (k + p)]2
+ 2
−
+
+
k (k + p)2 k 2 (k + p)2 (b · k)2 (k + p)2 k 2 (b · k)2 [b · (k + p)]2
λ(k + p)2
λb2 [k · (k + p)]2
4λk · (k + p)
+ 2
+
− 2
k b · kb · (k + p) k [b · (k + p)]2 (k + p)2 (b · k)2 [b · (k + p)]2
4λk · (k + p)
[k · (k + p)]2
λk 2
−
+
.
+
(b · k)2 (k + p)2 (k + p)2 b · kb · (k + p) 2(b · k)2 [b · (k + p)]2
Πg =
In the above expressions, the round brackets denote symmetrization without the factor 1/2
(i.e. a(µ bν) = aµ bν + aν bµ ).
The divergent parts of the one-loop momentum integrals in (A1) and (A2) can be performed by using the formulas for axial-type integrals in the PV-prescription from Appendices
in Refs. [29, 30]. The final result up to order λ is written in Eq. (26).
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