One-Loop Renormalization of Spin-$1/2$ SOPHIES
In this paper, three formulations of spin-$1/2$ Second-Order Pseudo-Hermitian quantum field theorIES (SOPHIES) are built from scratch from parity eigenstates. Pseudo-Hermiticity allows the unconstrained fields to satisfy either Fermi--Dirac or Bose--Einstein statistics, while self-conjugate Majorana-like fields are only compatible with Fermi--Dirac. The set of independent four dimension renormalizable self-interactions of the three theories are identified, and the one-loop renormalization of the unconstrained fermionic and bosonic theories coupled to an abelian gauge boson and enhanced with a Pauli term and including self-interactions is studied, together with the one-loop renormalization of the only independent quartic self-interaction of self-conjugate fields. The analysis leads to a rich set of Renormalization Group Equations with deep connections to known theories, like the Dirac formalism and the Klein--Gordon scalar through the fixed points of the Pauli coupling.