Chiral determinant as an overlap of two vacua

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DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90393-XzbMATH Open1007.81559arXivhep-lat/9307006OpenAlexW1963641960MaRDI QIDQ1967586FDOQ1967586


Authors: R. Narayanan, H. Neuberger Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 6 March 2000

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

Abstract: The effective action induced by chiral fermions can be written, formally, as an overlap of two states. These states are the Fock ground states of Hamiltonians for fermions in even dimensional space with opposite sign mass terms coupled to identical static vector potentials. A perturbative analysis of the overlap in the continuum framework produces the correct anomaly for Abelian gauge fields in two dimensions. When a lattice transfer matrix formalism is applied in the direction perpendicular to a domain wall on which chiral fermions live a lattice version of the overlap is obtained. The real part of the overlap is nonperturbatively defined and previous work indicates that the real part of the vacuum polarization tensor in four dimensions has the correct continuum limit for a chiral theory. The phase of the overlap represents the imaginary part of the chiral action and suffers from ambiguities.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9307006






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