Published September 2001 | Version v1
Journal article

Schwinger terms and quantum anomalies in self-consistent renormalization

Description

Using the self-consistent renormalization (SCR), a careful study of complicated tangle of problems associated with renormalizations, symmetries conservation, their breaking and anomalies is performed for some set of UV-divergent Feynman amplitudes (FAs) connected with mass-anysotropic AVV and AAA spinor triangles in the space-time n = 4. Most general quantum corrections (QCs) to the canonical Ward identities (WIs) and some nontrivial 'daughter reduction identities' (DRIs) are obtained. The results are new both for a nondegenerate case and for the chiral case. For a nondegenerate case (m1 ≠ m2 ≠ m3, ml ≠ 0), the QCs are the zero degree homogeneous functions of masses and are expressed in terms of the Appel hypergeometric functions F1. For the degenerate nonchiral case (m1 = m2 m3 = m ≠ 0) these QCs either are equal to zero for vector WIs or reduce to the well-known Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomalies for axial-vector WIs. For the chiral case (m = 0) and the chiral limit (m → 0) the behaviour of the AVV- and AAA-amplitudes depends crucially on the discrete symmetry of these amplitudes in the cases m = 0 and m → 0. Schwinger terms contributions are non-zero only for the chiral case. They are responsible for the QCs to vector and axial-vector WIs which are the same up to sign. In this case 'left-handed vector' current can be conserved and hence it can be more fundamental than vector or axial-vector currents. This may give some insight into why just the left-handed neutrino exists in Nature

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Identifiers

PII
S0920563201015821;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
102-103
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 377-384
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
International conference on supersymmetry and quantum field theory
Dates
25-29 Jul 2000
Place
Kharkov (Ukraine)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34048460
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CORRECTIONS; ENANTIOMORPHS; MASS; NEUTRINOS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RENORMALIZATION; SCHWINGER TERMS; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY BREAKING; WARD IDENTITY
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; ISOMERS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES

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Copyright (c) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.