Chiral Charge Conservation and Gauge Fields

Apr, 1976
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 14 (1976) 531
Report number:
  • COO-2232B-100

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Abstract: (APS)
An example of a gauge field theory with classical dyon solutions which violates anomalous chiral-charge conservation is presented. We also show that the pseudoparticle solution to the four-dimensional pure Yang-Mills equations is equivalent to a kink solution in one dimension. The net change in chirality, the Pontryagin index, and kink number are equivalent. This suggests an intimate connection between the spherically symmetric four-dimensional Euclidean gauge field theory and one-dimensional scalar field theories.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY
  • SYMMETRY: SU(2)
  • CONSERVATION LAW: CHARGE
  • SYMMETRY: CHIRAL
  • FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL: YANG-MILLS
  • FIELD EQUATIONS
  • FIELD THEORY: SCALAR
  • SYMMETRY: SU(2) X U(1) X UA(1)