Anomaly inflow of Rarita-Schwinger field in 3 dimensions

DOI10.1007/S11005-023-01705-8MaRDI QIDQ6113142zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Saki Koizumi

Publication date 8 August 2023

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00597

zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in quantum field theoryeffective quantum field theoriesquantum field theory on curved space or spacetime backgroundsspectral flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral flows (58J30) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

Abstract: We study the anomaly inflow of the Rarita-Schwinger field with gauge symmetry in $3$ dimensions. We find that global anomalies of the Rarita-Schwinger field are obtained by the spectral flow, which is similar to Witten's $SU(2)$ global anomaly for a Weyl fermion. The Rarita-Schwinger operator is shown to be a self-adjoint Fredholm operator, and its spectral flow is determined by a path on the set of self-adjoint Fredholm operators with the gap topology. From the spectral equivalence of the spectral flow, we find that the spectral flow of the Rarita-Schwinger operator is equivalent to that of the spin-$3/2$ Dirac operator. From this fact, we confirm that the anomaly of the $3$-dimensional Rarita-Schwinger field is captured by the anomaly inflow. Finally, we find that there are no global anomalies of gauge-diffeomorphism transformations on spin manifolds with any gauge group. We also confirm that the anomalous phase of the partition function which corresponds to the generator of $Omeg{a}_4^{{mPin}^{+}}(pt)=mathbb{Z}_{16}$ is $exp(3ipi/8)$ for the Rarita-Schwinger theory on unorientable ${mPin}^{+}$ manifolds without gauge symmetry.

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