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Multivalued Wess-Zumino-Novikov Functional and Chiral Anomaly in Hydrodynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-07 v4 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We present a hydrodynamic framework derived from the action of a perfect fluid, modified by the hydrodynamic analog of Novikov's multivalued functional. This modification introduces spin degrees of freedom into the fluid. The structure closely resembles the Abelian version of the Wess-Zumino functional, commonly applied in field theories with chiral anomalies. The deformation incorporates the transport properties of Weyl fermions and exhibits the chiral anomaly in the case of a charged fluid. It is also consistent with Onsager's semiclassical quantization of circulation. Additionally, we discuss the hydrodynamic analog of instantons and related topological invariants.

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@article{arxiv.2403.19909,
  title  = {Multivalued Wess-Zumino-Novikov Functional and Chiral Anomaly in Hydrodynamics},
  author = {P. B. Wiegmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.19909},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages, Appendix on comparison with kinematic of Weyl fermions is added