Fermion on curved spaces, symmetries, and quantum anomalies

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2006.083MaRDI QIDQ2472012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mihai Visinescu

Publication date 19 February 2008

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0609207, https://eudml.org/doc/45133, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2006/Paper083/

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zbMATH Keywords

axial anomaliesDirac type operatorsgravitational anomaliesspinning particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: We review the geodesic motion of pseudo-classical spinning particles in curved spaces. Investigating the generalized Killing equations for spinning spaces, we express the constants of motion in terms of Killing-Yano tensors. Passing from the spinning spaces to the Dirac equation in curved backgrounds we point out the role of the Killing-Yano tensors in the construction of the Dirac-type operators. The general results are applied to the case of the four-dimensional Euclidean Taub-Newman-Unti-Tamburino space. The gravitational and axial anomalies are studied for generalized Euclidean Taub-NUT metrics which admit hidden symmetries analogous to the Runge-Lenz vector of the Kepler-type problem. Using the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem for manifolds with boundaries, it is shown that the these metrics make no contribution to the axial anomaly.

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