Trace extensions, determinant bundles, and gauge group cocycles
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2 Differential Geometry
Abstract
We study the geometry of determinant line bundles associated to Dirac operators on compact odd dimensional manifolds. Physically, these arise as (local) vacuum line bundles in quantum gauge theory. We give a simplified derivation of the commutator anomaly formula using a construction based on noncyclic trace extensions and associated multiplicative renormalized determinants.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0205126,
title = {Trace extensions, determinant bundles, and gauge group cocycles},
author = {Joakim Arnlind and Jouko Mickelsson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0205126},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
clarifications and improvements in the text, added references; results unchanged