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Topological Charge and The Spectrum of Exactly Massless Fermions on the Lattice

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(1998)cite arxiv:hep-lat/9804016 Comment: 18 pages (LaTeX), 2 figures (EPS).

Abstract

The square root of the positive definite hermitian operator $D_w^\dagger D_w$ in Neuberger's proposal of exactly massless quarks on the lattice is implemented by the recursion formula $Y_k+1 = 1/2 (Y_k + D_w^\dagger D_w Y_k^-1)$ with $Y_0 = \Id$, where $Y_k^2$ converges to $D_w^\dagger D_w$ quadratically. The spectrum of the lattice Dirac operator for single massless fermion in two dimensional background U(1) gauge fields is investigated. For smooth background gauge fields with non-zero topological charge, the exact zero modes with definite chirality are reproduced to a very high precision on a finite lattice and the Index Theorem is satisfied exactly. The fermionic determinants are also computed and they are in good agreement with the continuum exact solution.

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