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Chern-Simons terms from thermal circles and anomalies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-17 v1

Abstract

We compute the full contribution of flavor and (or) Lorentz anomalies to the thermodynamic partition function. Apart from the Wess-Zumino consistency condition the Euclidean generating function must satisfy an extra requirement which we refer to as `consistency with the Euclidean vacuum.' The latter requirement fixes all Chern-Simons terms that arise in a particular Kaluza-Klein reduction of the theory. The solution to both conditions may be encoded in a `thermal anomaly polynomial' which we compute. Our construction fixes all the thermodynamic response parameters of a hydrodynamic theory associated with anomalies.

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@article{arxiv.1311.2935,
  title  = {Chern-Simons terms from thermal circles and anomalies},
  author = {Kristan Jensen and R. Loganayagam and Amos Yarom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.2935},
  year   = {2015}
}

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30 pages

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