Suppression of local degrees of freedom of gauge fields by chiral anomalies
citation_date
1990-08
Description
A path-integral quantization is presented for the chiral Schwinger model on a Riemann surface. Gauge invariance is maintained by integrating over all gauge potentials without the usual gauge fixing. All local degrees of freedom of the gauge field are suppressed after the integration of the anomalous effective action over a gauge orbit. The resulting theory is a topological one for the surviving global gauge excitations. The general implications for consistent quantization of chiral gauge theories are also discussed.
Type
text;
citation_publisher
American Physical Society
citation_journal_title
Physical Review Letters
citation_volume
65
citation_issue
6
citation_firstpage
675
Citation_lastpage
678
citation_doi
10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.675
citatation_issn
0031-9007
citation_keywords
Chiral anomalies; Degrees of freedom
Subject (LCSH)
Gauge fields (Physics); Chirality; Fermions
citation_language
eng;
Bibliographic Citation
Wu, Y.-S., & Zhao, W.-D. (1990). Suppression of local degrees of freedom of gauge fields by chiral anomalies. Physical Review Letters, 65(6), Aug., 675-8.
