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Spectral asymmetry and supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2 Condensed Matter Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Fractional charges, and in particular the spectral asymmetry eta of certain Dirac operators, can appear in the central charge of supersymmetric field theories. This yields unexpected analyticity constraints on eta from which classic results can be recovered in an elegant way. The method could also be applied in the context of string theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0207066,
  title  = {Spectral asymmetry and supersymmetry},
  author = {Frank Ferrari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0207066},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages; v2: typos corrected