Majorana fermions and CP-invariance of chiral gauge theories on the lattice

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.06.019zbMATH Open1196.81175arXiv0902.4783OpenAlexW2069570109MaRDI QIDQ1960078FDOQ1960078

Jan M. Pawlowski, Yuji Igarashi

Publication date: 12 October 2010

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The construction of massless Majorana fermions with chiral Yukawa couplings on the lattice is considered. We find topological obstructions tightly linked to those underlying the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem. In contradistinction to chiral fermions the obstructions originate only from the combination of the Dirac action and the Yukawa term. These findings are used to construct a chirally invariant lattice action. We also show that the path integral of this theory is given by the Pfaffian of the corresponding Dirac operator. As an application of the approach set-up here we construct a CP-invariant lattice action of a chiral gauge theory, based on a lattice adaptation of charge conjugation and parity transformation in the continuum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4783

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zbMATH Keywords

topological obstructionschiral Yukawa couplingsNielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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• Gauge Anomaly Associated with the Majorana Fermion in 8k + 1 Dimensions

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