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CPT anomaly in two-dimensional chiral U(1) gauge theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

The CPT anomaly, which was first seen in perturbation theory for certain four-dimensional chiral gauge theories, is also present in the exact result for a class of two-dimensional chiral U(1) gauge theories on the torus. Specifically, the chiral determinant for periodic fermion fields changes sign under a CPT transformation of the background gauge field. There is, in fact, an anomaly of Lorentz invariance, which allows for the CPT theorem to be circumvented.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0006154,
  title  = {CPT anomaly in two-dimensional chiral U(1) gauge theories},
  author = {F. R. Klinkhamer and J. Nishimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0006154},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, REVTeX, v3: published version