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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"