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Spinors on manifolds with boundary: APS index theorems with torsion

Kasper Peeters1 and Andrew Waldron2

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Index theorems for the Dirac operator allow one to study spinors on manifolds with boundary and torsion. We analyse the modifications of the boundary Chern-Simons correction and APS η invariant in the presence of torsion. The bulk contribution must also be modified and is computed using a supersymmetric quantum mechanics representation. Here we find agreement with existing results which employed heat kernel and Pauli-Villars techniques. Nonetheless, this computation also provides a stringent check of the Feynman rules of de Boer et al. for the computation of quantum mechanical path integrals. Our results can be verified via a duality relation between manifolds admitting a Killing-Yano tensor and manifolds with torsion. As an explicit example, we compute the indices of Taub-NUT and its dual constructed using this method and find agreement for any finite radius to the boundary. We also suggest a resolution to the problematic appearance of the Nieh-Yan invariant multiplied by the regulator (mass)2 in computations of the chiral gravitational anomaly coupled to torsion.


Keywords

Differential and Algebraic Geometry

Anomalies in Field and String Theories

Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Extended Supersymmetry

PACS

11.10.Lm Nonlinear or nonlocal theories and models

02.40.-k Geometry, differential geometry, and topology

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

03.65.Pm Relativistic wave equations

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 02 ( 1 February 1999)

Received 18 January 1999, accepted for publication 26 February 1999

Published 6 May 1999



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