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The Index and Axial Anomaly of a lattice Dirac operator

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2011-02-16 v1

Abstract

A remarkable feature of a lattice Dirac operator is discussed. Unlike the Dirac operator for massless fermions in the continuum, this Ginsparg-Wilson lattice Dirac operator does not possess topological zero modes for any topologically-nontrivial background gauge fields, even though it is exponentially-local, doublers-free, and reproduces correct axial anomaly for topologically-trivial gauge configurations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0110083,
  title  = {The Index and Axial Anomaly of a lattice Dirac operator},
  author = {Ting-Wai Chiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0110083},
  year   = {2011}
}

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3 pages, LaTex, Lattice2001(chiral)