Abstract:When a massless, isospinor Dirac field is confined to a finite region of space by means of a chiral boundary condition parametrized by an angle $\ensuremath{\theta}$, the baryon number of the vacuum i...When a massless, isospinor Dirac field is confined to a finite region of space by means of a chiral boundary condition parametrized by an angle $\ensuremath{\theta}$, the baryon number of the vacuum is shown to be $(\frac{\ensuremath{\chi}}{2\ensuremath{\pi}})(\ensuremath{\theta}\ensuremath{-}sin\ensuremath{\theta}cos\ensuremath{\theta})$ where $\ensuremath{\chi}$ is the Euler characteristic of the bounding surface. Some implications for chiral bag models are discussed.Read More
Publication Year: 1983
Publication Date: 1983-10-24
Language: en
Type: article
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