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Anomaly inflow and thermal equilibrium

2014; Springer Nature; Volume: 2014; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/jhep05(2014)134

1127-2236

Kristan Jensen, R. Loganayagam, Amos Yarom,

Quantum many-body systems

Using the anomaly inflow mechanism, we compute the flavor/Lorentz non-invariant contribution to the partition function in a background with a U(1) isometry. This contribution is a local functional of the background fields. By identifying the U(1) isometry with Euclidean time we obtain a contribution of the anomaly to the thermodynamic partition function from which hydrostatic correlators can be efficiently computed. Our result is in line with, and an extension of, previous studies on the role of anomalies in a hydrodynamic setting. Along the way we find simplified expressions for Bardeen-Zumino polynomials and various transgression formulae