Hadamard Renormalization of a 2-Dimensional Dirac Field

Abstract

The Hadamard renormalization procedure is applied to a free, massive Dirac field $\psi$ on a 2 dimensional Lorentzian spacetime. This yields the state-independent divergent terms in the Hadamard bispinor $G^{(1)}(x,x^{\prime })=\frac{1}{2}⟨\left[\bar{\psi }(x^{\prime }),\psi (x)\right]⟩$ as $x$ and $x^{\prime }$ are brought together along the unique geodesic connecting them. Subtracting these divergent terms within the limit assigns $G^{(1)}(x,x^{\prime })$, and thus any operator expressed in terms of it, a finite value at the coincident point $x^{\prime }=x$. In this limit, one obtains a quadratic operator instead of a bispinor. The procedure is thus used to assign finite values to various quadratic operators, including the stress-energy tensor. Results are presented covariantly, in a conformally-flat coordinate chart at purely spatial separations, and in the Minkowski metric. These terms can be directly subtracted from combinations of $G^{(1)}(x,x^{\prime })$ - themselves obtained, for example, from a numerical simulation - to obtain finite expectation values defined in the continuum.

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