Published May 23, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Chern-Simons terms from thermal circles and anomalies

  • 1. C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY,Stony Brook, NY 11794-3840 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria,Victoria, BC V8W 3P6 (Canada)
  • 3. Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics, Technion,Haifa 32000 (Israel)

Description

We compute the full contribution of flavor and (or) Lorentz anomalies to the thermodynamic partition function. Apart from the Wess-Zumino consistency condition the Euclidean generating function must satisfy an extra requirement which we refer to as 'consistency with the Euclidean vacuum'. The latter requirement fixes all Chern-Simons terms that arise in a particular Kaluza-Klein reduction of the theory. The solution to both conditions may be encoded in a 'thermal anomaly polynomial' which we compute. Our construction fixes all the thermodynamic response parameters of a hydrodynamic theory associated with anomalies

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)110; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/2576

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2014
Journal Issue
05
Journal Page Range
p. 110
ISSN
1029-8479

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Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP05(2014)110; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:2576
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)