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Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 78 No. 1 (1987) pp. 32-37

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A Comment on a New Interpretation of the Chiral Anomaly

Yoshiharu Kawamura, Tsuneo Suzuki and Eiji Yamada

Department of Physics, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920

(Received December 20, 1986)

Abstract:

We discuss a new interpretation of the chiral anomaly proposed by Fujiwara and Ohnuki. It is found that there is a difficulty in the application of their procedure for more general cases except a simple 1 + 1 dimensional case with an external field alone.


URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/78/32/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.78.32

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