Topology and pion correlators -- a study in the N_f=2 Schwinger model

Abstract

I readdress the issue whether the topological charge of the gauge background has an influence on a hadronic observable. To this end pion correlators in the Schwinger model with 2 dynamical flavours are determined on subensembles with a fixed topological charge. It turns out that the answer depends on a specific function of the sea-quark mass and the box volume which is in close analogy to the Leutwyler-Smilga parameter in full QCD.

Comments: Lattice2001(confinement), 3 pages, 2 figures