The invariant factor of the chiral determinant

DOI10.1140/EPJC/S10052-008-0782-4zbMATH Open1189.81091arXiv0807.1696OpenAlexW2056381597MaRDI QIDQ982072FDOQ982072

Authors: L. L. Salcedo 

Publication date: 2 July 2010

Published in: The European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The coupling of spin 0 and spin 1 external fields to Dirac fermions defines a theory which displays gauge chiral symmetry. Quantum mechanically, functional integration of the fermions yields the determinant of the Dirac operator, known as the chiral determinant. Its modulus is chiral invariant but not so its phase, which carries the chiral anomaly through the Wess-Zumino-Witten term. Here we find the remarkable result that, upon removal from the chiral determinant of this known anomalous part, the remaining chiral invariant factor is just the square root of the determinant of a local covariant operator of the Klein-Gordon type. This procedure bypasses the integrability obstruction allowing to write down a functional that correctly reproduces both the modulus and the phase of the chiral determinant. The technique is illustrated by computing the effective action in two dimensions at leading order in the derivative expansion. The results previously obtained by indirect methods are indeed reproduced.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1696

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

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