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Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4671–4674 (1996)

Species Doubling and Chiral Lagrangians

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Michael Creutz and Michel Tytgat
Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973

Received 5 April 1996; revised 18 April 1996; published in the issue dated 17 June 1996

Coupling gauge fields to the chiral currents from an effective Lagrangian for pseudoscalar mesons naturally gives rise to a species doubling phenomenon similar to that seen with fermionic fields in lattice gauge theory.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4671
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4671
PACS:
12.39.Fe, 11.15.Ha, 11.30.Rd, 11.40.Ex