Published August 7, 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Dynamics of Dirac and Weyl fermions on a two-dimensional surface

  • 1. Erevanskij Fizicheskij Inst. (USSR)
  • 2. Bylgarska Akademiya na Naukite, Sofia. Inst. za Yadrena Izsledvaniya i Yadrena Energetika

Description

The determinants of Dirac and Weyl fermions coupled to the extrinsic geometry of a two-dimensional surface embedded in a 3D euclidean space are calculated exactly. The effective action produced by chiral fermions contains a Wess-Zumino term with the structure of the Hopf topological invariant of a map S3->S2. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
175
Journal Issue
3
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
331-334
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA