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Gauge invariant treatment of γ5 in the scheme of ’t Hooft and Veltman

Er-Cheng Tsai*

  • Physics Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan

  • *ectsai@ntu.edu.tw
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Phys. Rev. D 83, 025020 – Published 25 January, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.025020

Abstract

We propose moving all the γ5 matrices to the rightmost position before continuing the dimension and show that this simple prescription will enable the dimension regularization scheme proposed by ’t Hooft and Veltman to be consistent with gauge invariance.

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Phys. Rev. D 83, 025020– Published 25 January, 2011
  • Received 9 March 2010

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