Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-11-11
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Talk presented at the Hesselberg workshop 2002 "Renormalization and regularization"
Scientific paper
We consider the Adler-Bardeen anomaly of the U(1) axial current in abelian and non-abelian gauge theories and present its algebraic characterization as well as an explicit evaluation proving regularization scheme independence of the anomaly. By extending the gauge coupling to an external space-time dependent field we get a unique definition for the quantum corrections of the topological term. It also implies a simple proof of the non-renormalization theorem of the Adler-Bardeen anomaly. We consider local gauge couplings in supersymmetric theories and find that there the renormalization of the gauge coupling is determined by the topological term in all loop orders except for one loop. It is shown that in one-loop order the quantum corrections to the topological term induce an anomalous breaking of supersymmetry, which is characterized by similar properties as the Adler-Bardeen anomaly.
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