Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly, the Nieh-Yan form, and vacuum polarization

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1998-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9805090v4

Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 045006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

9 pages, replaced with revtex file

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.59.045006

We show from first principles, using explicitly invariant Pauli-Villars regularization of chiral fermions, that the Nieh-Yan form does contribute to the Adler-Bell-Jackiw (ABJ) anomaly for spacetimes with generic torsion, and comment on some of the implications. There are a number of interesting and important differences with the usual ABJ contributions in the absence of torsion. For dimensional reasons, the Nieh-Yan contribution is proportional to the square of the regulator mass. In spacetimes with flat vierbein but non-trivial torsion, the associated diagrams are actually vacuum polarization rather than triangle diagrams, and the Nieh-Yan contribution to the ABJ anomaly arises from the fact that the axial torsion "photon" is not transverse.

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