Fermionic determinant as an overlap between bosonic vacua
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
We find a representation for the determinant of a Dirac operator in an even number of Euclidean dimensions as an overlap between two different vacua, each one corresponding to a bosonic theory with a quadratic action in dimensions, with identical kinetic terms, but differing in their mass terms. This resembles the overlap representation of a fermionic determinant (although bosonic fields are used here). This representation may find applications to lattice field theory, as an alternative to other bosonized representations for Dirac determinants already proposed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9803045,
title = {Fermionic determinant as an overlap between bosonic vacua},
author = {C. D. Fosco and F. A. Schaposnik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9803045},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, Latex; added reference, minor comments added