1995/12/18 by Paul Federbush, Federbush, Paul
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9512132
8 pages, LaTeX, revision treats only abelian anomaly, relates theory to Wess-Zumino model
openalex publication_date 1995/12/18 · arxiv created 1996/02/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider theories with gauged chiral fermions in which there are abelian anomalies, and no nonabelian anomalies (but there may be nonabelian gauge fields present). We construct an associated theory that is gauge invariant, renormalizable, and with the same particle content, by adding a finite number of terms to the action. Alternatively one can view the new theory as arising from the original theory by using another regularization, one that is gauge invariant. The situation is reminiscent of the mechanism of adding Fadeev-Popov ghosts to an unsatisfactory gauge theory, to arrive at the usual quantization procedure. The models developed herein are much like the abelian Wess-Zumino model (an abelian effective theory with a Wess-Zumino counter term), but unlike the W-Z model are renormalizable!