Path integral calculation of heat kernel traces with first order operator insertions

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.115183zbMATH Open1472.81133arXiv2005.08737OpenAlexW3089225727MaRDI QIDQ823015FDOQ823015

Authors: Fiorenzo Bastianelli, Francesco Comberiati 

Publication date: 24 September 2021

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study generalized heat kernel coefficients, which appear in the trace of the heat kernel with an insertion of a first-order differential operator, by using a path integral representation. These coefficients may be used to study gravitational anomalies, i.e. anomalies in the conservation of the stress tensor. We use the path integral method to compute the coefficients related to the gravitational anomalies of theories in a non-abelian gauge background and flat space of dimensions 2, 4, and 6. In 4 dimensions one does not expect to have genuine gravitational anomalies. However, they may be induced at intermediate stages by regularization schemes that fail to preserve the corresponding symmetry. A case of interest has recently appeared in the study of the trace anomalies of Weyl fermions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08737

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Green's functions for elliptic equations (35J08) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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