Locally covariant chiral fermions and anomalies

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.11.008MaRDI QIDQ895387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jochen Zahn

Publication date 2 December 2015

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1994

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

Abstract: We define chiral fermions in the presence of non-trivial gravitational and gauge background fields in the framework of locally covariant field theory. This allows to straightforwardly compute the chiral anomalies on non-compact Lorentzian space-times, without recourse to a weak field approximation.

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