Vacuum expectation values of products of chiral currents in \(3+1\) dimensions (Q2367967): Difference between revisions

It is known that a normal ordering product of local charge operators for fermions may be well-defined only in \(1+1\) space-time dimension in suitable dense domain of a fermionic Fock space. In the paper an algebraic approach is presented which allows to compute the expectation values of product of local non-Abelian charge operators for chiral fermions coupled to the external vector potential in \(3+1\) space-time dimension, i.e. for the case when the charge densities are not well- defined operators in Fock space. It is shown that when taking into account the gauge group actions in Fock bundles (Mickelsson, 1990) all the matrix elements of operator products can be evaluated by using simple algebraic relations based on the Lie algebra extensions generalizing the structure of the affine Lie algebra \(\widehat{LG}\) (Kac-Moody algebra) for the loop group \(LG\) (Pressley, Segal, 1986) corresponding to the compact gauge group \(G\) under consideration. The close relation between vacuum expectation values of product of four operators and a cyclic cocycle in noncommutative geometry (Connes, 1986) is established. In conclusion the \(\widehat{GL}_ 2\) action on vaccum line bundle is reconstructed by making use of the coadjoint orbits (Kirillov, 1976) in constructing relevant representations of the currents.