Anomalies in conservation laws in the Hamiltonian formalism

15 July 1986

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 34 (2) , 674-677
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.34.674

Abstract

We present an analysis of anomalies and its relation with the Ehrenfest theorem from the Hamiltonian point of view. It is shown that when an operator becomes anomalous it is due to the fact that it does not keep invariant the domain of definition of the Hamiltonian, proving a theorem which states that an operator which keeps invariant such a domain cannot have anomalies.

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