Elementary derivation of the chiral anomaly

DOI10.1007/BF00403250zbMATH Open0842.47044arXivhep-th/9412129OpenAlexW2082068062MaRDI QIDQ1906259FDOQ1906259

Authors: Edwin Langmann, Jouko Mickelsson 

Publication date: 11 March 1996

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

Abstract: An elementary derivation of the chiral gauge anomaly in all even dimensions is given in terms of noncommutative traces of pseudo-differential operators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9412129

zbMATH Keywords

chiral gauge anomaly in all even dimensionsnoncommutative traces of pseudo-differential operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Pseudodifferential operators (47G30)

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• SU(n) anomaly generating functionals: a toolkit for model builders
• The anisotropic chiral boson
• Descent equations of Yang-Mills anomalies in noncommutative geometry
• Anomalies and Schwinger terms in NCG field theory models

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