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Locally covariant chiral fermions and anomalies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-01-09 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We define chiral fermions in the presence of non-trivial gravitational and gauge background fields in the framework of locally covariant field theory. This allows to straightforwardly compute the chiral anomalies on non-compact Lorentzian space-times, without recourse to a weak field approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1407.1994,
  title  = {Locally covariant chiral fermions and anomalies},
  author = {Jochen Zahn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.1994},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages