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Main Author: Liu, Chang-Yong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13893
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  • In this paper, we investigate the Pontryagin trace anomaly for chiral fermions in a general curved background using Pauli-Villars regularization. We use both Feynman diagram method and Fujikawa's method to calculate the parity-odd contribution (Pontryagin term). Our result indicates that the trace anomaly of energy-momentum tensor for chiral fermions has Pontryagin term $P=\frac{i}{1536π^2}ε_{νσκλ}R^{νσ}_{\ \ ρμ}R^{ρμκλ}$ which agrees with the work of Bonora et al \cite{Bonora:2014qla}.