Chern-Simons terms from thermal circles and anomalies

Kristan Jensen, R. Loganayagam, Amos Yarom

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Abstract

We compute the full contribution of flavor and (or) Lorentz anomalies to the thermodynamic partition function. Apart from the Wess-Zumino consistency condition the Euclidean generating function must satisfy an extra requirement which we refer to as 'consistency with the Euclidean vacuum'. The latter requirement fixes all Chern-Simons terms that arise in a particular Kaluza-Klein reduction of the theory. The solution to both conditions may be encoded in a 'thermal anomaly polynomial' which we compute. Our construction fixes all the thermodynamic response parameters of a hydrodynamic theory associated with anomalies.

Original languageEnglish
Article number110
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2014
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Anomalies in Field and String Theories
  • Global Symmetries

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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