CPT anomaly in two-dimensional chiral U(1) gauge theories

Jun, 2000
3 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 63 (2001) 097701
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Report number:
  • KA-TP-11-2000,
  • NBI-HE-00-27

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Abstract:
The CPT anomaly, which was first seen in perturbation theory for certain four-dimensional chiral gauge theories, is also present in the exact result for a class of two-dimensional chiral U(1) gauge theories on the torus. Specifically, the chiral determinant for periodic fermion fields changes sign under a CPT transformation of the background gauge field. There is, in fact, an anomaly of Lorentz invariance, which allows for the CPT theorem to be circumvented.
  • gauge field theory: U(1)
  • fermion: chiral
  • dimension: 2
  • anomaly: CPT
  • space-time: torus
  • violation: Lorentz
  • Chern-Simons term