The chiral anomaly of the free fermion in functorial field theory

DOI10.1007/S00023-020-00893-6MaRDI QIDQ2308087zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Ludewig, Saskia Roos

Publication date 25 March 2020

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04212

zbMATH Keywords

anomaly theorybimodulesbordismchiral anomalydeterminant of Dirac operatorinfinite-dimensional Clifford algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Topological manifolds (57N99) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

Abstract: When trying to cast the free fermion in the framework of functorial field theory, its chiral anomaly manifests in the fact that it assigns the determinant of the Dirac operator to a top-dimensional closed spin manifold, which is not a number as expected, but an element of a complex line. In functorial field theory language, this means that the theory is twisted, which gives rise to an anomaly theory. In this paper, we give a detailed construction of this anomaly theory, as a functor that sends manifolds to infinite-dimensional Clifford algebras and bordisms to bimodules.

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