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Fujikawa's method is a way of deriving the chiral anomaly in quantum field theory. Suppose given a Dirac field ψ which transforms according to a ρ representation of the compact Lie group ''G''; and we have a background connection form of taking values in the Lie algebra The Dirac operator (in Feynman slash notation) is : and the fermionic action is given by : The partition function is : The axial symmetry transformation goes as : : : Classically, this implies that the chiral current, is conserved, . Quantum mechanically, the chiral current is not conserved: Jackiw discovered this due to the non-vanishing of a triangle diagram. Fujikawa reinterpreted this as a change in the partition function measure under a chiral transformation. To calculate a change in the measure under a chiral transformation, first consider the dirac fermions in a basis of eigenvectors of the Dirac operator: : : where are Grassmann valued coefficients, and are eigenvectors of the Dirac operator: : The eigenfunctions are taken to be orthonormal with respect to integration in d-dimensional space, : The measure of the path integral is then defined to be: : Under an infinitesimal chiral transformation, write : : The Jacobian of the transformation can now be calculated, using the orthonormality of the eigenvectors : The transformation of the coefficients are calculated in the same manner. Finally, the quantum measure changes as : where the Jacobian is the reciprocal of the determinant because the integration variables are Grassmannian, and the 2 appears because the a's and b's contribute equally. We can calculate the determinant by standard techniques: : to first order in α(x). Specialising to the case where α is a constant, the Jacobian must be regularised because the integral is ill-defined as written. Fujikawa employed heat-kernel regularization, such that : : after applying the completeness relation for the eigenvectors, performing the trace over γ-matrices, and taking the limit in M. The result is expressed in terms of the field strength 2-form, This result is equivalent to Chern class of the -bundle over the d-dimensional base space, and gives the chiral anomaly, responsible for the non-conservation of the chiral current. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fujikawa method」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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