Effects of Anisotropy in QED3 from Dyson-Schwinger equations in a box

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We investigate the effect of anisotropies in the fermion velocities of 2+1 dimensional QED on the critical number N_f^c of fermions for dynamical mass generation.

• Our framework are the Dyson-Schwinger equations for the gauge boson and fermion propagators formulated in a finite volume.
• In contrast to previous Dyson-Schwinger studies we do not rely on an expansion in small anisotropies but keep the full velocity dependence of fermion equations intact.
• As result we find sizable variations of N_f^c away from the isotropic point in agreement with other approaches.