2014/07/08 by Jochen Zahn · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Chiral anomaly #Computer science #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Covariant transformation #Fermion #Field (mathematics) #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge anomaly #Gauge covariant derivative #Gauge theory #Gravitation #Gravitational anomaly #Gravitational field #Introduction to gauge theory #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Mixed anomaly #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Pure mathematics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Space (punctuation) #Theoretical physics #gr-qc #hep-th #math-ph #math.MP
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.11.008
published as Nucl. Phys. B 890 (2015) 1 · 19 pages
arxiv created 2014/07/08 · openalex publication_date 2014/11/11 · arxiv updated 2015/01/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We define chiral fermions in the presence of non-trivial gravitational and gauge background fields in the framework of locally covariant field theory. This allows to straightforwardly compute the chiral anomalies on non-compact Lorentzian spacetimes, without recourse to a weak field approximation.