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Hearts-on Approach to Educational Leadership
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Dirac operator index and topology of lattice gauge fields
The fermionic topological charge of lattice gauge fields, given in terms of a
spectral flow of the Hermitian Wilson--Dirac operator, or equivalently, as the
index of Neuberger's lattice Dirac operator, is shown to have analogous
properties to L\"uscher's geometrical lattice topological charge. The main new
result is that it reduces to the continuum topological charge in the classical
continuum limit. (This is sketched here; the full proof will be given in a
sequel to this paper.) A potential application of the ideas behind fermionic
lattice topological charge to deriving a combinatorial construction of the
signature invariant of a 4-manifold is also discussed.Comment: 16 pages, based on talk at Chiral'99 (Sept. 13-18, 1999, Taipei), to
be published in the Proceeding
Relation between bare lattice coupling and MSbar coupling at one loop with general lattice fermions
A compact general integral formula is derived from which the fermionic
contribution to the one-loop coefficient in the perturbative expansion of the
MSbar coupling in powers of the bare lattice coupling can be extracted. It is
seen to reproduce the known results for unimproved naive, staggered and Wilson
fermions, and has advantageous features which facilitate the evaluation in the
case of improved lattice fermion formulations. This is illustrated in the case
of Wilson clover fermions, and an expression in terms of known lattice
integrals is obtained in this case which gives the coefficient to much greater
numerical accuracy than in the previous literature.Comment: 26 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys.Rev.D. Completely rewritten
with new title and new material added (see abstract). Some material from the
previous version has been removed since it was superceded by arXiv:0709.078
Axial anomaly and topological charge in lattice gauge theory with Overlap Dirac operator
An explicit, detailed evaluation of the classical continuum limit of the
axial anomaly/index density of the overlap Dirac operator is carried out in the
infinite volume setting, and in a certain finite volume setting where the
continuum limit involves an infinite volume limit. Our approach is based on a
novel power series expansion of the overlap Dirac operator. The correct
continuum expression is reproduced when the parameter is in the physical
region . This is established for a broad range of continuum gauge
fields. An analogous result for the fermionic topological charge, given by the
index of the overlap Dirac operator, is then established for a class of
topologically non-trivial fields in the aforementioned finite volume setting.
Problematic issues concerning the index in the infinite volume setting are also
discussed.Comment: Latex, 33 pages. v6: shortened and (hopefully) more succinct version,
to appear in Ann.Phy
Fermionic topological charge of families of lattice gauge fields
Topological charge of families of lattice gauge fields is defined
fermionically via families index theory for the overlap Dirac operator. Certain
obstructions to gauge invariance of the overlap chiral fermion determinant, as
well as the lattice analogues of certain obstructions to gauge fixings without
the Gribov problem, have natural descriptions in this context.Comment: 4p., Lattice2002(chiral) (+ one paragraph not included in the
proceedings version for length reasons
Improving the locality of the overlap Dirac operator via approximate solutions of the Ginsparg-Wilson relation
We determine the free field hypercubic Dirac operator which is optimally
close to satisfying the Ginsparg-Wilson relation. Inserting this operator into
the overlap formula, we show that the analytic locality bound on the resulting
overlap Dirac operator is substantially stronger than in the standard case.
This improvement generally persists in gauge backgrounds when the plaquette
variables are all close to unity.Comment: 3 pages, contributed to Proceedings of Lattice2003(chiral
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