Chiral anomaly in contorted spacetimes

DOI10.1023/A:1026653314045zbMATH Open0945.83022arXivgr-qc/9704051MaRDI QIDQ1807401FDOQ1807401

Authors: Dirk Kreimer, Eckehard W. Mielke 

Publication date: 18 November 1999

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Dirac equation in Riemann-Cartan spacetimes with torsion is reconsidered. As is well-known, only the axial covector torsion $A$, a one-form, couples to massive Dirac fields. Using diagrammatic techniques, we show that besides the familiar Riemannian term only the Pontrjagin type four-form $dAwedgedA$ does arise additionally in the chiral anomaly, but not the Nieh-Yan term $d^{\ast }A$, as has been claimed recently. Implications for cosmic strings in Einstein-Cartan theory as well as for Ashtekar's canonical approach to quantum gravity are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704051

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zbMATH Keywords

torsionChern-Simons termDirac fieldquantum anomaly

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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