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Chiral Anomaly and Index Theorem on a finite lattice

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-06-25 v1 Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The condition for a lattice Dirac operator D to reproduce correct chiral anomaly at each site of a finite lattice for smooth background gauge fields is that D possesses exact zero modes satisfying the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. This is also the necessary condition for D to have correct fermion determinant (ratio) which plays the important role of incorporating dynamical fermions in the functional integral.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9909012,
  title  = {Chiral Anomaly and Index Theorem on a finite lattice},
  author = {Ting-Wai Chiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9909012},
  year   = {2015}
}

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LATTICE99(chiral fermion), 3 pages, Latex, espcrc2.sty