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Chiral anomalies in the reduced model

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-07 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

On the basis of an observation due to Kiskis, Narayanan and Neuberger, we show that there is a remnant of chiral anomalies in the reduced model when a Dirac operator which obeys the Ginsparg-Wilson relation is employed for the fermion sector. We consider fermions belonging to the fundamental representation of the gauge group U(N) or SU(N). For vector-like theories, we determine a general form of the axial anomaly or the topological charge within a framework of a U(1) embedding. For chiral gauge theories with the gauge group U(N), a remnant of gauge anomaly emerges as an obstruction to a smooth fermion integration measure. The pure gauge action of gauge-field configurations which cause these non-trivial phenomena always diverges in the 't Hooft NN\to\infty limit when d>2.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0207009,
  title  = {Chiral anomalies in the reduced model},
  author = {Yoshio Kikukawa and Hiroshi Suzuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0207009},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, uses JHEP.cls and amsfonts.sty, the final version to appear in JHEP