Topological fermion condensates from anomalies

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2018)013MaRDI QIDQ1627249zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Simon Catterall, Jack Laiho, Judah Unmuth-Yockey

Publication date 22 November 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07845

zbMATH Keywords

lattice models of gravitylattice quantum field theorynonperturbative effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: We show that a class of fermion theory formulated on a compact, curved manifold will generate a condensate whose magnitude is determined only by the volume and Euler characteristic of the space. The construction requires that the fermions be treated as K"{a}hler-Dirac fields and the condensate arises from an anomaly associated with a $U(1)$ global symmetry which is subsequently broken to a discrete subgroup. Remarkably the anomaly survives under discretization of the space which allows us to compute the condensate on an arbitrary triangulation. The results, being topological in character, should hold in a wide range of gravitationally coupled fermion theories both classical and quantum

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