Overlap Formulation of Majorana–weyl Fermions
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An overlap method for regularizing Majorana–Weyl fermions interacting with gauge fields is presented. A mod(2) index is introduced in relation to the anomalous violation of a discrete global chiral symmetry. Most of the paper is restricted to 2 dimensions but generalizations to 2+8k dimensions should be straightforward.
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تاریخ انتشار 1996