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Two-dimensional Chiral Anomaly in Differential Regularization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v6

Abstract

The two-dimensional chiral anomaly is calculated using differential regularization. It is shown that the anomaly emerges naturally in the vector and axial Ward identities on the same footing as the four-dimensional case. The vector gauge symmetry can be achieved by an appropriate choice of the mass scales without introducing the seagull term. We have analyzed the reason why such a universal result can be obtained in differential regularization.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9902199,
  title  = {Two-dimensional Chiral Anomaly in Differential Regularization},
  author = {W. F. Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9902199},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, RevTex, no figures, a mistake in the massive case pointed out by the referee is corrected