Chern-Simons Currents and Chiral Fermions on the Lattice

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1992-09-01

arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9209003v1

Phys.Lett. B301 (1993) 219-223

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

10 pages (1 figure not included), uses harvmac, UCSD-PTH-92-28

Scientific paper

10.1016/0370-2693(93)90692-B

We compute the Chern-Simons current induced by Wilson fermions on a $d=2n+1$ dimensional lattice, making use of a topological interpretation of the momentum space fermion propagator as a map from the torus to the sphere, $T^{d}\to S^{d}$. These mappings are shown to fall in different homotopy classes depending on the value of $m/r$, where $m$ is the fermion mass and $r$ is the Wilson coupling. As a result, the induced Chern-Simons term changes discontinuously at $d+1$ different values for $m$, unlike in the continuum. This behavior is exactly what is required by the peculiar spectrum found for a recently proposed model of chiral lattice fermions as zeromodes bound to a domain wall.

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