Schwinger terms and quantum anomalies in self-consistent renormalization
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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
Additional details
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
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.