A lattice formulation of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index
H. Fukaya,
N. Kawai*,
Y. Matsuki,
M. Mori,
K. Nakayama,
T. Onogi and
S. Yamaguchi*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
January 04, 2020
Published on:
August 27, 2020
Abstract
Atiyah-Singer index theorem on a lattice without boundary is well understood owing to the seminal work by Hasenfratz et al. But its extension to the system with boundary (the so-called Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem), which plays a crucial role in T-anomaly cancellation between bulk- and edge-modes in 3+1 dimensional topological matters, is known only in the continuum theory and no lattice realization has been made so far. In this work, we try to non-perturbatively define an alternative index from the lattice domain-wall fermion in 3+1 dimensions. We will show that this new index in the continuum limit, converges to the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index defined on a manifold with boundary, which coincides with the surface of the domain-wall.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0149
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