A Note on UV/IR Mixing and Non-Commutative Instanton Calculus

Abstract

We estimate the instanton-induced vacuum energy in non-commutative U(1) Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. In the dilute gas approximation, it is found to be plagued by infrared divergences, as a result of UV/IR mixing.

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