It is known that in the zeta function regularization and in the Fujikawa method chiral anomaly is defined through a coefficient in the heat kernel expansion for the Dirac operator. In this paper we apply the heat kernel methods to calculate boundary contributions to the chiral anomaly for local (bag) boundary conditions. As a by-product some new results on the heat trace asymptotics are also obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)535-552
Number of pages18
JournalNuclear Physics B
Volume677
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Jan 2004

    Research areas

  • Chiral anomaly, Heat kernel, Local boundary conditions

    Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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