On the Regularized Determinant for Noninvertible Elliptic Operators

Nov, 1983
19 pages
Published in:
  • Commun.Math.Phys. 93 (1984) 407
Report number:
  • Print-83-1003 (LA PLATA)

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Abstract: (Springer)
We propose a technique for regularizing the determinant of a non-invertible elliptic operator restricted to the complement of its nilpotent elements. We apply this approach to the study of chiral changes in the fermionic path-integral variables.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: PATH INTEGRAL
  • BOUNDARY CONDITION
  • CHARGE: TOPOLOGICAL
  • RENORMALIZATION: REGULARIZATION
  • FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS: linear space
  • FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL: MASSLESS
  • MASSLESS: FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL
  • SYMMETRY: CHIRAL
  • FERMION: FIELD THEORY