Gauge anomaly cancellation in chiral gauge theories

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2012.03.005MaRDI QIDQ436249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gabriel Di Lemos Santiago Lima, Rafael Chaves, Sebastião Alves Dias

Publication date 20 July 2012

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.4007

zbMATH Keywords

gauge anomalygauge field theorynonperturbative technique

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

Abstract: We consider chiral fermions interacting minimally with abelian and non-abelian gauge fields. Using a path integral approach and exploring the consequences of a mechanism of symmetry restoration, we show that the gauge anomaly has null expectation value in the vacuum for both cases (abelian and non-abelian). We argue that the same mechanism has no possibility to cancel the chiral anomaly, what eliminates competition between chiral and gauge symmetry at full quantum level. We also show that the insertion of the gauge anomaly in arbitrary gauge invariant correlators gives a null result, which points towards anomaly cancellation in the subspace of physical state vectors.

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