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On the trace anomaly for Weyl fermions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-07 v2

Abstract

This note is a comment on some recent papers that have raised a controversy about the existence of the odd-parity trace anomaly in a four-dimensional theory of Weyl fermions. Without going into too technical details we explain why the methods employed in those papers cannot detect it.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1909.11991,
  title  = {On the trace anomaly for Weyl fermions},
  author = {Loriano Bonora and Roberto Soldati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11991},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

20 pages, several comments and an appendix added

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