Axial Anomaly Induced Fermion Fractionization and Effective Gauge Theory Actions in Odd Dimensional Space-Times

Nov, 1983
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 51 (1983) 2077
Report number:
  • Print-83-0988 (IAS,PRINCETON)

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Abstract: (APS)
A new quantum field-theoretical technique is developed and used to explore the relationship between even-space-time-dimensional axial anomalies and background-field-induced fermion numbers and Euler-Heisenberg effective actions in odd-dimensional space-times.
  • FIELD THEORY: BACKGROUND FIELD
  • FIELD THEORY: HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL
  • FIELD THEORY: EFFECTIVE ACTION
  • ANOMALY: AXIAL
  • FERMION NUMBER
  • QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS: THREE-DIMENSIONAL
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(N)
  • CHARGE: TOPOLOGICAL
  • FLUX: MAGNETIC
  • MAGNETIC: FLUX