The gravitational chiral anomaly of the spin-1/2 field in the presence of twisted boundary conditions for ordinary field theory

Authors
Citation
A. Hatzinikitas, The gravitational chiral anomaly of the spin-1/2 field in the presence of twisted boundary conditions for ordinary field theory, LETT MATH P, 49(4), 1999, pp. 287-296
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
LETTERS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
ISSN journal
03779017 → ACNP
Volume
49
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
287 - 296
Database
ISI
SICI code
0377-9017(199909)49:4<287:TGCAOT>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
We calculate the chiral anomaly in the neighborhood of the fixed point spac e cal M-h which is constructed by the group action of a discrete symmetry h on a compact manifold cal M. The Feynman diagrams approach for the corresp onding supersymmetric quantum mechanical system with twisted boundary condi tions is used. The result we derive in this way agrees with the generalizat ion of the ordinary index theorem (the G-index theorem) on the spin complex .