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We revisit the chiral kinetic equation from high density effective theory approach, finding a chiral kinetic equation differs from counterpart derived from field theory in high order terms in the O(1/μ) expansion, but in agreement with the equation derived in on-shell effective field theory upon identification of cutoff. By using reparametrization transformation properties of the effective theory, we show that the difference in kinetic equations from two approaches are in fact expected. It is simply due to different choices of degree of freedom by effective theory and field theory. We also show that they give equivalent description of the dynamics of chiral fermions.
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Lin, S., Shukla, A. Chiral kinetic theory from effective field theory revisited. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 60 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2019)060
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