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arxiv: hep-th/0005188 · v1 · submitted 2000-05-20 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph

Chiral QED out of matter

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keywords chiralmatter-onlytheoryequivalencefieldshiggsanomalyarises
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In a previous paper we have shown how the Wilsonian renormalization group naturally leads to the equivalence of the standard QED with a matter-only theory. In this paper we give an improved explanation of the equivalence and discuss, as an example, the equivalence of a chiral QED in the Higgs phase with a matter-only theory. Ignoring the contributions suppressed by the negative powers of a UV cutoff, the matter-only theory is equivalent to the perturbatively renormalizable chiral QED with two complex Higgs fields. In the matter-only theory chiral anomaly arises without elementary gauge fields.

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