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Chiral Defect Fermions and the Layered Phase

C. P. Korthals-Altes, S. Nicolis, J. Prades

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9306017

Abstract

Chiral defect fermions on the lattice in 4+1 dimensions are analyzed using mean field theory. The fermion propagator has a localized chiral mode in weak coupling but loses it when the coupling in the unphysical fifth direction becomes too large. A layered phase à la Fu-Nielsen appears where the theory is vector-like in every layer.

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