Weyl fermions in a non-abelian gauge background and trace anomalies

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2019)241zbMATH Open1427.83093arXiv1908.03750WikidataQ126842001 ScholiaQ126842001MaRDI QIDQ2283523FDOQ2283523

Authors: Fiorenza Bastianelli, Matteo Broccoli 

Publication date: 2 January 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the trace and chiral anomalies of Weyl fermions in a non-abelian gauge background in four dimensions. Using a Pauli-Villars regularization we identify the trace anomaly, proving that it can be cast in a gauge invariant form, even in the presence of the non-abelian chiral anomaly, that we rederive to check the consistency of our methods. In particular, we find that the trace anomaly does not contain any parity-odd topological contribution, whose presence has been debated in the recent literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03750

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryanomalies in field and string theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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