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arxiv: 1311.2935 · v1 · pith:LQDS4RYInew · submitted 2013-11-12 · ✦ hep-th

Chern-Simons terms from thermal circles and anomalies

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords anomalieschern-simonscomputeconsistencyeuclideanfixesfunctionrequirement
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We compute the full contribution of flavor and (or) Lorentz anomalies to the thermodynamic partition function. Apart from the Wess-Zumino consistency condition the Euclidean generating function must satisfy an extra requirement which we refer to as `consistency with the Euclidean vacuum.' The latter requirement fixes all Chern-Simons terms that arise in a particular Kaluza-Klein reduction of the theory. The solution to both conditions may be encoded in a `thermal anomaly polynomial' which we compute. Our construction fixes all the thermodynamic response parameters of a hydrodynamic theory associated with anomalies.

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