The Index of a Ginsparg-Wilson Dirac operator

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26 July 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

A novel feature of a Ginsparg-Wilson lattice Dirac operator is discussed. Unlike the Dirac operator for massless fermions in the continuum, this lattice Dirac operator does not possess topological zero modes for any topologically-nontrivial background gauge fields, even though it is exponentially-local, doublers-free, and reproduces correct axial anomaly for topologically-trivial gauge configurations.

Keywords

GINSPARG WILSON
DIRAC OPERATOR
NOVEL FEATURE
LATTICE DIRAC
WILSON DIRAC
ANOMALY

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Published version: Physics Letters B, 521 (3-4), 429.

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