John Bell's Observations on the Chiral Anomaly and Some Properties of Its Descendants

2000/11/29 by R. Jackiw, Jackiw, R.
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0011274

6 pages, LaTeX, talk presented at the Bell Memorial Meeting, Vienna, Austria, November 2000

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Abstract

John Bell's emphasis of the essential ambiguities in anomaly calculations is recalled. Some descendants of the anomaly are reviewed.

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