Classical chiral kinetic theory and anomalies in even space-time dimensions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-16 v1
Abstract
We propose a classical action for the motion of massless Weyl fermions in a background gauge field in (2N+1)+1 spacetime dimensions. We use this action to derive the collisionless Boltzmann equation for a gas of such particles, and show how classical versions of the gauge and Abelian chiral anomalies arise from the Chern character of the non-Abelian Berry connection that parallel transports the spin degree of freedom in momentum space.
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@article{arxiv.1308.4576,
title = {Classical chiral kinetic theory and anomalies in even space-time dimensions},
author = {Vatsal Dwivedi and Michael Stone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4576},
year = {2015}
}
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