Vacuum energy of the supersymmetric $\mathbb{C}P^{N-1}$ model on $\mathbb{R}\times S^1$ in the $1/N$ expansion

Abstract

By employing the $1/N$ expansion, we compute the vacuum energy~$E(\delta\epsilon)$ of the two-dimensional supersymmetric (SUSY) $\mathbb{C}P^{N-1}$ model on~$\mathbb{R}\times S^1$ with $\mathbb{Z}_N$ twisted boundary conditions to the second order in a SUSY-breaking parameter~$\delta\epsilon$. This quantity was vigorously studied recently by Fujimori et\ al.\ using a semi-classical approximation based on the bion, motivated by a possible semi-classical picture on the infrared renormalon. In our calculation, we find that the parameter~$\delta\epsilon$ receives renormalization and, after this renormalization, the vacuum energy becomes ultraviolet finite. To the next-to-leading order of the $1/N$ expansion, we find that the vacuum energy normalized by the radius of the~$S^1$, $R$, $RE(\delta\epsilon)$ behaves as inverse powers of~$\Lambda R$ for~$\Lambda R$ small, where $\Lambda$ is the dynamical scale. Since $\Lambda$ is related to the renormalized 't~Hooft coupling~$\lambda_R$ as~$\Lambda\sim e^{-2\pi/\lambda_R}$, to the order of the $1/N$ expansion we work out, the vacuum energy is a purely non-perturbative quantity and has no well-defined weak coupling expansion in~$\lambda_R$.