Vacuum polarization and the geometric phase: Gauge invariance

DOI10.1063/1.532354zbMath0928.47048arXivhep-th/9702129OpenAlexW3101734304MaRDI QIDQ4212998

Jouko Mickelsson

Publication date: 4 January 2000

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702129

zbMATH Keywords

gauge theoryWightman axiomsgauge invarianceDirac fermionsnonperturbative renormalizationvacuum polarization phase

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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Cites Work

• Local invariants of spectral asymmetry
• Quasi-free 'second quantization'
• Gauged Lagrangian distributions
• Lie algebras of differential operators, their central extensions, and W- algebras
• Schwinger terms and cohomology of pseudodifferential operators
• Scattering matrix in external field problems

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