SHIFT IN QUANTUM HALL-FLUIDS AND TOPOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CHIRAL ANOMALY

The topological aspects of the quantum number shift for the quantum Ha ll fluid has been discussed here. It is shown that this effectively re presents the deviation of the Berry phase associated with the chiral a nomaly arising out of the quantization procedure of a fermion from tha t of a quantum Hall particle induced by the external magnetic held. Al so it is argued that there should not be any shift when the curvature of space vanishes.