The Axial Anomaly Revisited

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1996-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9606110v4

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

20 pages, appendix on relation to Wess-Zumino model added, LaTeX

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We consider theories with gauged chiral fermions in which there are abelian anomalies, and no nonabelian anomalies (but there may be nonabelian gauge fields present). We construct an associated theory that is gauge-invariant, renormalizable, and with the same particle content, by adding a finite number of terms to the action. Alternatively one can view the new theory as arising from the original theory by using another regularization, one that is gauge-invariant. The situation is reminiscent of the mechanism of adding Fadeev-Popov ghosts to an unsatisfactory gauge theory, to arrive at the usual quantization procedure. The models developed herein are much like the abelian Wess-Zumino model (an abelian effective theory with a Wess-Zumino counterterm), but unlike the W-Z model are renormalizable! Details of the approach are worked out explicitly for the special case of a single massless Dirac fermion, for which we couple one abelian gauge field to the vector current and another abelian gauge field to the axial current.

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