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Comment on: Topological Invariants, instantons, and the chiral anomaly on spaces with torsion

Dirk Kreimer, Eckehard W. Mielke

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9904071

Abstract

In Riemann-Cartan spacetimes with torsion only its axial covector piece A couples to massive Dirac fields. Using renormalization group arguments, we show that besides the familiar Riemannian term only the Pontrjagin type four-form dA dA does arise additionally in the chiral anomaly, but not the Nieh-Yan term d A, as has been claimed in a recent paper [PRD 55, 7580 (1997)].

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