The topological structure of Nieh-Yan form and the chiral anomaly in spaces with torsion

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/41/309zbMATH Open0943.53031arXivhep-th/9905058OpenAlexW1965557835MaRDI QIDQ4947832FDOQ4947832

Authors: Sheng Li 

Publication date: 25 April 2000

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The topological structure of the Nieh-Yan form in 4-dimensional manifold is given by making use of the decomposition of spin connection. The case of the generalized Nieh-Yan form on $2^d$-dimensional manifold is discussed with an example of 8-dimensional case studied in detail. The chiral anomaly with nonvanishing torsion is studied also. The further contributions from torsional part to chiral anomaly are found coming from the zeroes of some fields under pure gauge condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9905058

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zbMATH Keywords

chiral anomalyspin connectionNieh-Yan form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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