Fermion Current Algebras and Schwinger Terms in 3+1 Dimensions

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1993-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9304114v2

Commun.Math.Phys.162:1-32,1994

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

42 pages, UBC 91-32 (revised version, original Jan. 92)

Scientific paper

10.1007/BF02105184

We discuss the restricted linear group in infinite dimensions modeled by the Schatten class of rank $2p=4$ which contains $(3+1)$-dimensional analog of the loop groups and is closely related to Yang-Mills theory with fermions in $(3+1)$-dimensions. We give an alternative to the construction of the ``highest weight'' representation of this group found by Mickelsson and Rajeev. Our approach is close to quantum field theory, with the elements of this group regarded as Bogoliubov transformations for fermions in an external Yang-Mills field. Though these cannot be unitarily implemented in the physically relevant representation of the fermion field algebra, we argue that they can be implemented by sesquilinear forms, and that there is a (regularized) product of forms providing an appropriate group structure. On the Lie algebra level, this gives an explicit, non-perturbative construction of fermion current algebras in $(3+1)$ space-time dimensions which explicitly shows that the ``wave function renormalization'' required for a consistent definition of the currents and their Lie bracket naturally leads to the Schwinger term identical with the Mickelsson-Rajeev cocycle. Though the explicit form of the Schwinger term is given only for the case $p=2$, our arguments apply also to the restricted linear groups modeled by Schatten classes of rank $2p=6,8,\ldots$ corresponding to current algebras in $(d+1)$- dimensions, $d=5,7,\ldots$.

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