Gauge anomaly cancellation in chiral gauge theories

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2012.03.005zbMATH Open1246.81139arXiv0912.4007OpenAlexW2060214801MaRDI QIDQ436249FDOQ436249

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)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge field theorygauge anomalynonperturbative technique

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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