Soft-photon exponentiation beyond the quenched approximation in QED$_{2+1}$

Abstract

We discuss the infrared and ultraviolet behavior of the fermion propagator in (2+1)-dimensional QED based on spectral representation.If we choose soft-photon exponentiation to include all orders of soft-photon emission by electron,its spectral function may be written as $e^{F}$,where $F$ is a model independent spectral function of the lowest order in the coupling constant.We evaluate the function $F$ in an analytic way and show its short and long distance behavior with an infrared cut-off $μ$.At short distance function $F$ has linear and logarithmic infrared divergence.However in the long distance limit function $F$ vanishes.So that only short distance part of $e^{F}$ is modified from unity.We may avoid the linear divergence by the choice of the gauge $d=-1$,where $d$ is a covariant gauge fixing parameter.In this gauge the spectral function vanishes in the limit of zero bare photon mass $μ$.We overcome this difficulty by adding continuous spectrum of massive fermion loop to photon spectral function $ρ(μ^{2})$,where $μ$ has the role of invariant mass for fermion-antifermion pair and is larger than $2m.$So that unquenched fermion spectral function survibes.For the application of chiral symmetry breaking we carefully studied the position space propagator $S_{F}(0)$.At least for weak coupling these values agree quite well with that obtained in Dyson-Schwinger equation with proper vertex correction.We also study these parameter as a function of the flavour number $N$ and t'Hooft coupling $α=e^{2}N/8π$ for strong coupling case.