Anomalies and Bose symmetry
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-12-24 v2
Abstract
We point out a feature of the triangle diagram for three chiral currents which is perhaps not widely appreciated: Bose symmetry is not manifest and suffers from a momentum-routing ambiguity. Imposing Bose symmetry fixes the ambiguity and leads to the famous Adler - Bell - Jackiw anomaly.
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@article{arxiv.1911.06529,
title = {Anomalies and Bose symmetry},
author = {Daniel Kabat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06529},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
10 pages. To appear in "Roman Jackiw: 80th Birthday Festschrift" edited by A. Niemi, T. Tomboulis, and K. K. Phua (World Scientific). v2: additional comments on covariant anomalies