Chiral Anomalies of Anti-Symmetric Tensor Gauge Fields in Higher Dimensions
Chiral Anomalies of Anti-Symmetric Tensor Gauge Fields in Higher Dimensions
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高维反对称张量规范场的手征异常
DOI:
10.1143/ptp.78.440
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发表时间:
1987
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通讯作者:
Masaru Takao
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作者:
R. Endo;Masaru Takao
where TsJ1lJ is a symmetric energy-momentum tensor,9) the sign ± corresponds to the chirality of the matter fields, and Jl(R), a local polynomial of curvature 2-form RI'A = (1/2)R plJPcdx I\dx (5) , is the chiral U(l) anomaly in 4N dimensions. A similar relation holds for the consistent anomalies_)-6) The relation (1'1) was originally derived by Alvarez-Gaume and Witten!) by two methods, Feynman diagram technique and Fujikawa's path integral method.lO) Path integral approaches to (1'1) were also given by Fujikawa) and Matsuki.) More mathematical approach was given by Bardeen and Zumino.4) In the path integral approach, we may take two steps to verify (1'1). First, we derive a general expression for the chiral U(l) anomalies in arbitrary dimensions. For this purpose, we should develop a method to calculate the path integral J acobians for the chiral transformation; as is known, the anomalies are ascribable to the non-invariance of the path integral measure.!O) Next, we generalize the method to the evaluation of the J acobians for general coordinate transformation. Then we compare the results with the U(l) anomalies.***) In the first step, there are two simple methods to evaluate the anomalous Jacobians for the chiral U(l) transformation. One is based on the 1 +0 dimensional supersymmetric non-linear sigma model, and was applied to spin 1/2,3/2 and antisymmetric tensor fields in Ref. 1). The other is Schwinger's proper time method, and