The Origin of Chiral Anomaly and the Noncommutative Geometry

Abstract

We describe the scalar and spinor fields on noncommutative sphere starting from canonical realizations of the enveloping algebra ${\cal A}={\cal U}{u(2))}$. The gauge extension of a free spinor model, the Schwinger model on a noncommutative sphere, is defined and the model is quantized. The noncommutative version of the model contains only a finite number of dynamical modes and is non-perturbatively UV-regular. An exact expresion for the chiral anomaly is found. In the commutative limit the standard formula is recovered.