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Chiral edge states on spheres for lattice domain wall fermions

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2024-10-31 v1

Abstract

Recently Weyl edge states on manifolds in dimension d+1d+1 with a connected dd-dimensional boundary were proposed as candidates for lattice regularization of chiral gauge theories, for even dd. The examples considered to date include solid cylinders in any odd dimension, and the 3-ball with boundary S2S^2. Here we consider the general case of a (d+1)(d+1)-dimensional ball for any even dd and show that the theory for the edge states on SdS^d describe a conventional Weyl fermion on a sphere with half-integer momenta. A possible advantage of such theories is that they can be discretized by a square lattice without breaking the underlying discrete hypercubic symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2410.23065,
  title  = {Chiral edge states on spheres for lattice domain wall fermions},
  author = {Michael Clancy and David B. Kaplan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.23065},
  year   = {2024}
}