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Chiral fermions in two dimensions?

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

Quenched studies of a global U(1) symmetric Wilson-Yukawa model in two dimensions show no evidence of a charged fermion in the vortex phase at strong Wilson-Yukawa coupling while there is strong indication of a massive neutral fermion. However, with the U(1)L_L gauge field turned on, we use dimensional arguments to suggest that the neutral fermion appears to couple chirally to a massive vector boson state.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9212001,
  title  = {Chiral fermions in two dimensions?},
  author = {Wolfgang Bock and Asit K. De and Erich Focht and Jan Smit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9212001},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 2 postscript figures (appended), Wash. U

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