Published October 15, 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

Time ordering, anomalies, and chiral gauge theories

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX13NP (England)

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

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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