On the trace anomaly of a Weyl fermion
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Publication:1636588
DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2016)178zbMATH Open1390.83323arXiv1610.02304OpenAlexW2529954003MaRDI QIDQ1636588FDOQ1636588
Riccardo Martelli, Fiorenzo Bastianelli
Publication date: 12 June 2018
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We calculate the trace anomaly of a Weyl fermion coupled to gravity by using Fujikawa's method supplemented by the choice of a consistent regulator. The latter is constructed out of Pauli-Villars regulating fields. The motivation for presenting such a calculation stems from recent studies that suggest that the trace anomaly of chiral fermions in four dimensions might contain an imaginary part proportional to the Pontryagin density. We find that the trace anomaly of a Weyl fermion is given by half the trace anomaly of a Dirac fermion, so that no imaginary part proportional to the Pontryagin density is seen to arise.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02304
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