Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-11-17
Phys.Rev.D71:046002,2005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
29 pages, no figures; replacement fixes a typographical minus sign error in eq.(16), an errant normalization factor, and clari
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.046002
A new technique is developed for the derivation of the Wess-Zumino-Witten terms of gauged chiral lagrangians. We start in D=5 with a pure (mesonless) Yang-Mills theory, which includes relevant gauge field Chern-Simons terms. The theory is then compactified, and the effective D=4 lagrangian is derived using lattice techniques, or ``deconstruction,'' where pseudoscalar mesons arise from the lattice Wilson links. This yields the WZW term with the correct Witten coefficient by way of a simple heuristic argument. We discover a novel WZW term for singlet currents, that yields the full Goldstone-Wilczek current, and a U(1) axial current for the skyrmion, with the appropriate anomaly structures. A more detailed analysis is presented of the dimensional compactification of Yang-Mills in D=5 into a gauged chiral lagrangian in D=4, heeding the consistency of the D=4 and D=5 Bianchi identities. These dictate a novel covariant derivative structure in the D=4 gauge theory, yielding a field strength modified by the addition of commutators of chiral currents. The Chern-Simons term of the pure D=5 Yang-Mills theory then devolves into the correct form of the Wess-Zumino-Witten term with an index (the analogue of N_{colors}=3) of N=D=5. The theory also has a Skyrme term with a fixed coefficient.
Hill Christopher T.
Zachos Cosmas K.
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