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Investigation of anomalous axial QED

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

Although axial QED suffers from a gauge anomaly, gauge invariance may be maintained by the addition of a nonlocal counterterm. Such nonlocal conterterms, however, are expected to ruin unitarity of the theory. We explicitly investigate some relevant Feynman diagrams and show that, indeed, unitarity is violated, contrary to recent claims.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9703130,
  title  = {Investigation of anomalous axial QED},
  author = {C. Adam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9703130},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, Latex, 3 figures, needed macro: psbox.tex; changes: a note rebuffing a recent criticism, and some references added