Mod-two APS index and domain-wall fermion

DOI10.1007/S11005-022-01509-2zbMATH Open1487.81127arXiv2012.03543OpenAlexW4214732733MaRDI QIDQ2114543FDOQ2114543

Mayuko Yamashita, Yoshiyuki Matsuki, Tetsuya Onogi, Shinichiroh Matsuo, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Mikio Furuta, Hidenori Fukaya

Publication date: 15 March 2022

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

Abstract: We reformulate the mod-two Atiyah-Patodi-Singer (APS) index in a physicist-friendly way using the domain-wall fermion. Our new formulation is given on a closed manifold, which is extended from the original manifold with boundary, where we instead give a fermion mass term changing its sign at the location of the original boundary. This new setup does not need the APS boundary condition, which is non-local. A mathematical proof of equivalence between the two different formulations is given by two different evaluations of the same index of a Dirac operator on a higher dimensional manifold. The domain-wall fermion allows us to separate the edge and bulk mode contributions in a natural but not in a gauge invariant way, which offers a straightforward description of the global anomaly inflow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03543

zbMATH Keywords

index theoremanomaly inflowdomain-wall fermion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74)

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