Topological index associated with transverse axial vector and vector anomalies in QED
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-04-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
It is shown that a novel anomaly associated with transverse Ward-Takahashi identity exists for pseudo-tensor current in QED, and the anomaly gives rise to a topological index of Dirac operator in terms of Atiyah-Singer index theorem.
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@article{arxiv.1504.02331,
title = {Topological index associated with transverse axial vector and vector anomalies in QED},
author = {Yi-Qian Sun and Pin Lü and Ai-Dong Bao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.02331},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages. Submitted to "Chinese Physics C"