Published October 15, 1991
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Journal article
Time ordering, anomalies, and chiral gauge theories
Description
For chiral gauge theories, singularity of the time-ordered products results in some ambiguity spoiling the Tomonaga-Schwinger equation; this is explicitly demonstrated in two- and four-dimensional Abelian theories. The ambiguity can be eliminated by the requirement of gauge invariance and, thus, nonpolynomially modifies the conventional quantization of chiral gauge theories. A correctly quantized theory should suffer no gauge anomalies, neither the perturbative ''triangle'' nor the nonperturbative Witten anomalies
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review, D
- Journal Volume
- 44
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 2548-2551
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 23009407
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHIRAL SYMMETRY; FEYNMAN DIAGRAM; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; QUANTIZATION; S MATRIX; TIME DEPENDENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIAGRAMS; FIELD THEORIES; INFORMATION; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATRICES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY