TY - JOUR
T1 - Reduced Dirac-Kähler lattice fermion action
AU - Edwards, Robert
AU - Ritchie, David
AU - Zwanziger, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
* Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number PHY-8413569.
PY - 1988/1/25
Y1 - 1988/1/25
N2 - It is shown that the lattice Dirac-Kähler action is reducible under a chiral-like transformation. This provides a new lattice fermion action for spinors that have 2d-1 components (instead of 2d), with the property that, in the free case, each component satisfies the lattice euclidean Klein-Gordon equation. Reflection positivity is satisfied on the lattice, thus assuring a (positive) physical Hilbert space. In d = 4 dimensions the spinors have 8 components, and the correct physical chiral anomaly in the continuum limit. The action is suitable for QCD quarks which, in the continuum limit, are described by Dirac spinors that occur in flavor doublets.
AB - It is shown that the lattice Dirac-Kähler action is reducible under a chiral-like transformation. This provides a new lattice fermion action for spinors that have 2d-1 components (instead of 2d), with the property that, in the free case, each component satisfies the lattice euclidean Klein-Gordon equation. Reflection positivity is satisfied on the lattice, thus assuring a (positive) physical Hilbert space. In d = 4 dimensions the spinors have 8 components, and the correct physical chiral anomaly in the continuum limit. The action is suitable for QCD quarks which, in the continuum limit, are described by Dirac spinors that occur in flavor doublets.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(88)90406-3
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(88)90406-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038924438
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 296
SP - 961
EP - 990
JO - Nuclear Physics, Section B
JF - Nuclear Physics, Section B
IS - 4
ER -