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Lorentz violation and the proper-time method

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we apply the proper-time method to generate the Lorentz-violating Chern-Simons terms in the four-dimensional Yang-Mills and non-linearized gravity theories. It is shown that the coefficient of the induced Chern-Simons term is finite but regularization dependent.

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@article{arxiv.0708.3348,
  title  = {Lorentz violation and the proper-time method},
  author = {T. Mariz and J. R. Nascimento and A. Yu. Petrov and L. Y. Santos and A. J. da Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.3348},
  year   = {2008}
}

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