Hamiltonian interpretation of anomalies

DOI10.1007/BF01466595zbMath0584.58048OpenAlexW2044038778MaRDI QIDQ1069535

Philip A. Nelson, Luis Álvarez-Gaumé

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01466595

zbMATH Keywords

anomaly in gauge theoriesquantum mechanics of fermions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Homotopy groups of special types (55Q70)

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