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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.

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@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}
}

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poster at LATTICE99 (theoretical developments), 3 pages, 1 ps figure