Fermionic determinant as an overlap between bosonic vacua

We find a representation for the determinant of a Dirac operator in an even number D =2 n of Euclidean dimensions as an overlap between two different vacua, each one corresponding to a bosonic theory with a quadratic action in 2 n +1 dimensions, with identical kinetic terms, but differing in their m...

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Autores principales: Fosco, Cesar Daniel, Schaposnik, Fidel Arturo
Formato: Articulo Preprint
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1998
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/123128
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0370269398006029?via%3Dihub
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Sumario:We find a representation for the determinant of a Dirac operator in an even number D =2 n of Euclidean dimensions as an overlap between two different vacua, each one corresponding to a bosonic theory with a quadratic action in 2 n +1 dimensions, with identical kinetic terms, but differing in their mass terms. This resembles the overlap representation of a fermionic determinant (although bosonic fields are used here). This representation may find applications to lattice field theory, as an alternative to other bosonized representations for Dirac determinants already proposed.