The gravitational chiral anomaly of the spin-1/2 field in the presence of twisted boundary conditions for ordinary field theory (Q1973934)

The author calculates the chiral anomaly for twisted boundary conditions using supersymmetric quantum mechanics as proposed by \textit{L. Alvarez-Gaumé} and \textit{E. Witten} [Nucl. Phys. B 234, 269 (1983)] and employing the Feynman diagrammatical formalism developed by \textit{A. Hatzinikitas, K. Schalm} and \textit{P. van Nieuwenhuizen} [Nucl. Phys. B 518, 424-454 (1998; Zbl 0945.81062)]. The main ingredient is the assumption that the path integral is dominated by the contributions belonging to a submanifold invariant under a discrete isometry group of the \(4n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold. Indeed in this way the standard result (a generalization of the ordinary index theorem on the spin complex) of \textit{T. Eguchi, P. B. Gilkey} and \textit{A. J. Hanson} [Phys. Rep. 66, 213-393 (1980)] is recovered.