A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. Johannesburg, 2014. / In this dissertation we compute the anomalous dimensions for a class of operators, belonging to the SU(3) sector of the theory, that have a bare dimension of order N. For these operators the large N limit and the planar limit are distinct and summing only the planar diagrams will not capture the large N dynamics. Although the spectrum of anomalous dimensions has been computed for this class of operators, previous studies have neglected certain terms which were argued to be small. After dropping these terms diagonalizing the dilatation operator reduces to diagonalizing a set of decoupled oscillators. In this dissertation we explicitely compute the terms which were neglected previously and show that diagonalizing the dilatation operator still reduces to diagonalizing a set of decoupled oscillators.

Orientador: Julio Marny Hoff da Silva / Banca: Elias Leite Mendonça / Banca: Alysson Fábio Ferrari / Resumo: Neste trabalho, fez-se uma introdução aos mapas dinâmicos, um conjunto de técnicas desenvolvido por Mat- sumoto, Umezawa, entre outros colaboradores, e a prescrição i na formulação usual da teoria quântica de campos no contı́nuo para descrever quebra espontânea de simetria de calibre (QES). Esta técnica baseia-se na utilização de representações unitárias não equivalentes, para construir as diferentes fases fı́sicas observadas em sistemas que apresenta QES. Introduzido o mapa dinâmico, tentou-se adaptar esta coleção de técnicas junto da prescrição i em rede, obtendo como resultado que a primeira não é satisfatoriamente desenvolvida em redes finitas, entretanto no limite termodinâmico o resultado aparenta estar adequado. Então, visitou-se o Teorema de Elitzur para as descrições obtidas por esta ferramenta, isto é, tentou-se demonstrar o Teorema de Elitzur para modelos com termos complexos provenientes da prescrição i . Uma vez que este não forneceu as informações esperadas, aplicou-se outras discussões para investigar a possibilidade da quebra espontânea de simetria de calibre em rede. Neste texto, o ferramental adotado se baseou em uma discussão apresentada por Splittorff / Abstract: In this work, an introduction to dynamic maps, a set of techniques developed by Matsumoto, Umezawa, among other collaborators, and the iepsilon prescription in the usual formulation of the quantum field theory in the continuum to describe spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry (QES). This technique is based on the use of non-equivalent unitary representations to construct the different physical phases observed in systems that apresented QES. Introduced dynamic map, it was started the adaptation fo this collection of techniques to- gether with the prescription i in lattice, obtaining as a result that the first one is not satisfactorily developed in finite lattice, however in the thermodynamic limit the apparent result is adequate. Then the Elitzur's The- orem was visited for the descriptions obtained by this tool, that is, it was attempted to demonstrate Elitzur's Theorem for models with complex terms from the prescription i . As soon as the latter did not provide the expected information, other discussions were conducted to investigate the possibility of spontaneous breaking of lattice gauge symmetry. In this text, the tooling adopted was based on a discussion presented by Splittorff / Mestre

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Qaisar Shafi, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2007. / "Graduate Program in Physics and Astronomy." Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-98).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-69).

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