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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

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