Atiyah-Patodi-Singer Index Theorem for Domain Walls

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AB9385MaRDI QIDQ6336760arXivFDO

Authors A. V. Ivanov, D. V. Vassilevich

Publication date 14 March 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/AB9385

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

arXiv classification

hep-thmath-phmath.DGmath.MP

Abstract: We consider the index of a Dirac operator on a compact even dimensional manifold with a domain wall. The latter is defined as a co-dimension one submanifold where the connection jumps. We formulate and prove an analog of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer theorem that relates the index to the bulk integral of Pontryagin density and $eta$-invariants of auxiliary Dirac operators on the domain wall. Thus the index is expressed through the global chiral anomaly in the volume and the parity anomaly on the wall.

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