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It is argued on general ground and demonstrated in the particular example of the Chiral Schwinger Model that there is nothing wrong with apparently anomalous chiral gauge theory. If quantised correctly, there should be no gauge anomaly and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Tien D Kieu

Chiral anomaly is a key feature of Lorentz-invariant quantum field theories: in presence of parallel external electric and magnetic fields, the number of massless Weyl fermions of a given chirality is not conserved. In condensed matter,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-20 Shantonu Mukherjee , Sayantan Sharma , Hridis K. Pal

A manifestly gauge invariant formulation of chiral theories with fermions on the lattice is developed. It combines SLAC lattice derivative \cite{DWY}, \cite{ACS}, \cite{S} and generalized Pauli-Villars regularization \cite{FS}. The theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. A. Slavnov

We extend the idea of the generalized Pauli-Villars regularization of Frolov and Slavnov and analyze the general structure of the regularization scheme. The gauge anomaly-free condition emerges in a simple way in the scheme, and, under the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Kiyoshi Okuyama , Hiroshi Suzuki

The discovery of a chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals, the non-conservation of chiral charge and energy across two opposite chirality Weyl nodes, has sparked immense interest in understanding its impact on various physical phenomena. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Sunit Das , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

We construct chiral theories with the smallest number $n_\chi$ of Weyl fermions that form an anomaly-free set under various Abelian gauge groups. For the $U(1)$ group, where $n_\chi = 5$, we show that the general solution to the anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-09 Davi B. Costa , Bogdan A. Dobrescu , Patrick J. Fox

Using the path integral formulation in Euclidean space, we extended the calculation of the abelian chiral anomalies in the case of Lorentz violating theories by considering a new fermionic correction term provided by the standard model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Andrés Gómez , Luis Urrutia

An elementary derivation of the chiral gauge anomaly in all even dimensions is given in terms of noncommutative traces of pseudo-differential operators.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Edwin Langmann , Jouko Mickelsson

The Weyl anomaly problem is treated within a purely geometrical context. Arguments are given that hint at a possible classical origin of the conformal anomaly in the Riemannian nature of the background geometry where the matter fields play…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Israel Quiros

The transverse axial vector and vector anomalies in four-dimensional U(1) gauge theories studied in [10] is reexamined by means of perturbative methods. The absence of transverse anomalies for both axial vector and vector current is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Wei-Min Sun , Hong-Shi Zong , Xiang-Song Chen , Fan Wang

Conformally invariant massless field systems involving only dimensionless parameters are known to describe particle physics at very high energy. In the presence of an external gravitational field, the conformal symmetry may generalize to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Boulanger

The chiral anomaly is one of the robust quantum effects in relativistic field theories with a chiral symmetry where charges in chiral sectors appear to be separately conserved. The chiral anomaly, which is often associated with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-27 Shuyang Wang , Jay D. Sau

The Dirac and Weyl semimetals are unusual materials in which the nodes of the bulk states are protected against gap formation by crystalline symmetry. The chiral anomaly~\cite{Adler,Bell}, predicted to occur in both systems, was recently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-19 Max Hirschberger , Satya Kushwaha , Zhijun Wang , Quinn Gibson , Carina A. Belvin , B. A. Bernevig , R. J. Cava , N. P. Ong

This ia a review/research paper on anomalies applied to a bottom-up approach to standard model and gravity. It is divided in two parts. The first consists in a review proper of anomalies in quantum field theories. Anomalies are analyzed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Loriano Bonora , Stefano G. Giaccari

We discuss both the UV and IR origin of the one-loop triangle gauge anomalies for noncommutative nonabelian chiral gauge theories with fundamental, adjoint and bi-fundamental fermions for U(N) groups. We find that gauge anomalies only come…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. P. Martin

In Weyl semimetals the application of parallel electric and magnetic fields leads to valley polarization -- an occupation disbalance of valleys of opposite chirality -- a direct consequence of the chiral anomaly. In this work, we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Nicandro Bovenzi , Anton R. Akhmerov , Maxim Breitkreiz

In a simple abelian spinor field theory, the canonical trace identities for certain axial-vector and axial-scalar operators are reexamined in dimensional regularization, some disagreements with previous results are found and an interesting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -F. Yang

I study variations of the fermionic determinant for a nonabelian Dirac fermion with external vector and axial vector sources. I consider different regularizations, leading to different chiral anomalies when the variations are chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan B. Thomassen

We use Pauli-Villars regularization to evaluate the conformal and chiral anomalies in the effective field theories from Z3 and Z7 compactifications of the heterotic string without Wilson lines. We show that parameters for Pauli-Villars…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Mary K. Gaillard , Jacob Leedom

The bulk quantization method is used for regularizing a conventional four dimensional theory of massless fermions coupled to an external non-Abelian gauge field and for subsequently evaluating the associated Ward identity. As a result one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas Klose , Sorin Marculescu