Fermion decoupling and the Axial Anomaly on the Lattice
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
In the axial Ward identity of lattice QED we show that in the limit of infinite fermion mass m the pseudoscalar density term exactly cancels the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly. Using this result we calculate the U(1) axial anomaly in a non-abelian gauge theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9909058,
title = {Fermion decoupling and the Axial Anomaly on the Lattice},
author = {H. Banerjee and Asit K. De},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9909058},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
poster at LATTICE99 (theoretical developments), 3 pages, 1 ps figure