Anomalies on Orbifolds

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16 March 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/0103135

Abstract

We discuss the form of the chiral anomaly on an S1/Z2 orbifold with chiral boundary conditions. We find that the 4-divergence of the higher-dimensional current evaluated at a given point in the extra dimension is proportional to the probability of finding the chiral zero mode there. Nevertheless the anomaly, appropriately defined as the five dimensional divergence of the current, lives entirely on the orbifold fixed planes and is independent of the shape of the zero mode. Therefore long distance four dimensional anomaly cancellation ensures the consistency of the higher dimensional orbifold theory.

Keywords

APPROPRIATELY DEFINED
HIGHER DIMENSIONAL
CHIRAL BOUNDARY
CHIRAL ANOMALY
S1/Z2 ORBIFOLD
ZERO MODE

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