Abstract
We study quantum electrodynamics in a ()-dimensional space-time with two flavors of dynamical fermions by numerical simulations on the lattice. We discretize the theory using both the compact and the noncompact formulations and analyze the behavior of the chiral condensate and of the monopole density in the finite lattice regime as well as in the continuum limit. By comparing the results obtained with the two approaches, we draw some conclusions about the possible equivalence of the two lattice formulations in the continuum limit.
2 More- Received 12 July 2005
- Corrected 29 November 2005
- Publisher error corrected 6 December 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.094508
©2005 American Physical Society
Corrections
29 November 2005
6 December 2005