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Fermion regularization, fermion measure and axion fields

General Physics 2016-12-21 v3

Abstract

Axion fields were originally introduced to control CP violation due to the theta term in QCD. Pauli-Villars regularization, or the use of a parity symmetric fermion measure, however, preserves CP in the fermion sector. A CP violation arising from the theta term can then be neutralized in a natural way by setting theta equal to zero.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.07936,
  title  = {Fermion regularization, fermion measure and axion fields},
  author = {P. Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07936},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

4 pages; regularization argument expanded and measure argument simplified; invited talk at "New trends in Field Theories", Varanasi, November 2016

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