Chiral anomalies, higher dimensions, and differential geometry

摘要: Abstract We determine the abelian and non-abelian chiral anomalies in 2n-dimensional spacetime by a differential geometric method which enables us to obtain without having calculate Feynman diagrams, as has been done Frampton Kephart. The advantage of this is that construction automatically satisfies Wess-Zumino consistency condition, condition direct physical interpretation. hope our analysis sheds light on mathematical structure associated with anomalies. self-contained brief review forms other tools included.