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Anomaly and Condensate in the Light-Cone Schwinger Model
The axial anomaly and fermion condensate in the light cone Schwinger model
are studied following path integral methods. This formalism allows for a simple
and direct calculation for these and other vacuum dependent phenomena.Comment: 10pp, Revte
Instanton-like Excitations in 2D Fermionic Field Theory
New non-perturbatives excitations in the massless Thirring and Schwinger
models are discussed.Comment: Revtex, 9pp, to be published in New Trends in Theoretical Physic
The electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor
We clarify the relation between canonical and metric energy-momentum tensors.
In particular, we show that a natural definition arises from Noether's Theorem
which directly leads to a symmetric and gauge invariant tensor for
electromagnetic field theories on an arbitrary space-time of any dimension
An alternative well-posedness property and static spacetimes with naked singularities
In the first part of this paper, we show that the Cauchy problem for wave
propagation in some static spacetimes presenting a singular time-like boundary
is well posed, if we only demand the waves to have finite energy, although no
boundary condition is required. This feature does not come from essential
self-adjointness, which is false in these cases, but from a different
phenomenon that we call the alternative well-posedness property, whose origin
is due to the degeneracy of the metric components near the boundary.
Beyond these examples, in the second part, we characterize the type of
degeneracy which leads to this phenomenon.Comment: 34 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Class. Quantum Gra
On the energy-momentum tensor
We clarify the relation among canonical, metric and Belinfante's
energy-momentum tensors for general tensor field theories. For any tensor field
T, we define a new tensor field \til {\bm T}, in terms of which the
Belinfante tensor is readily computed. We show that the latter is the one that
arises naturally from Noether Theorem for an arbitrary spacetime and it
coincides on-shell with the metric one.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figur
Aharonov-Bohm effect in a Class of Noncommutative Theories
The Aharonov-Bohm effect including spin-noncommutative effects is considered.
At linear order in , the magnetic field is gauge invariant although
spatially strongly anisotropic. Despite this anisotropy, the
Schr\"odinger-Pauli equation is separable through successive unitary
transformations and the exact solution is found. The scattering amplitude is
calculated and compared with the usual case. In the noncommutative
Aharonov-Bohm case the differential cross section is independent of .Comment: 10 page
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