Gravitational anomalies, gerbes, and Hamiltonian quantization.

DOI10.1007/S002200000227zbMATH Open1050.58021arXivhep-th/9904189OpenAlexW3102657123MaRDI QIDQ1583872FDOQ1583872

Authors: C. Ekstrand, Jouko Mickelsson 

Publication date: 2000

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

Abstract: In [Carey, A.L., J. Mickelsson, and M. K. Murray: Comm. Math. Phys. 183, 707 (1997)] Schwinger terms in hamiltonian quantization of chiral fermions coupled to vector potentials were computed, using some ideas from the theory of gerbes, with the help of the family index theorem for a manifold with boundary. Here, we generalize this method to include gravitational Schwinger terms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9904189

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22) Noncommutative global analysis, noncommutative residues (58J42)

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