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A proof of the axial anomaly

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The local form of the axial anomaly with both left and right-handed gauge fields and a metric present is given and proved using the families index theorem

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    John Lott

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Communicated by S. -T. Yau

Research supported by an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Lott, J. A proof of the axial anomaly. Commun.Math. Phys. 97, 371–379 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213403

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