Differential regularization of a nonrelativistic anyon model

Abstract
Differential regularization is applied to a field theory of a nonrelativistic charged boson field φ with λ(φ*φ)2 self-interaction and coupling to a statistics-changing U(1) Chern-Simons gauge field. Renormalized configuration-space amplitudes for all diagrams contributing to the φ*φ*φφ four-point function, which is the only primitively divergent Green's function, are obtained up to three-loop order. The renormalization group equations are explicitly checked, and the scheme dependence of the β function is investigated. If the renormalization scheme is fixed to agree with a previous one-loop calculation, the two- and three-loop contributions to β(λ,e) vanish, and β(λ,e) itself vanishes when the "self-dual" condition relating λ to the gauge coupling e is imposed.
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