Parity-breaking electromagnetic interactions in thermal QED_3

Abstract

We examine the parity violating terms generated by the box diagram in QED_3 at finite temperature. These lead to both extensive as well as non-extensive effective actions, which have very distinct behavior in the long wavelength and static limits. We discuss a large gauge Ward identity for the leading terms in the static limit, whose solution coincides with the effective action proposed earlier.

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures