An observation on Feynman diagrams with axial anomalous subgraphs in dimensional regularization with an anticommuting ${\gamma }_5$

Abstract

Through the calculation of the matrix element of the singlet axial-current operator between the vacuum and a pair of gluons in dimensional regularization with an anticommuting ${\gamma }_5$ defined in a Kreimer-scheme variant, we find that additional renormalization counter-terms proportional to the Chern-Simons current operator are needed starting from $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s^2)$ in QCD. This is in contrast to the well-known purely multiplicative renormalization of the singlet axial-current operator defined with a non-anticommuting ${\gamma }_5$. Consequently, without introducing compensation terms in the form of additional renormalization, the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly equation does not hold automatically in the bare form in this kind of schemes. We determine the corresponding (gauge-dependent) coefficient to $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s^3)$ in QCD, using a variant of the original Kreimer prescription which is implemented in our computation in terms of the standard cyclic trace together with a constructively-defined ${\gamma }_5$. Owing to the factorized form of these divergences, intimately related to the axial anomaly, we further performed a check, using concrete examples, that with ${\gamma }_5$ treated in this way, the axial-current operator needs no more additional renormalization in dimensional regularization but \textit{only} for non-anomalous amplitudes in a perturbatively renormalizable theory. To be complete, we provide a few additional ingredients needed for a proposed extension of the algorithmic procedure formulated in the above analysis to potential applications to a renormalizable anomaly-free chiral gauge theory, i.e.~the electroweak theory.

Refined formuation of the algorithmic procedure to manipulate ${\gamma }_5$ with more discussions; a novel extension of the prescription proposed for applications to the Standard Model provided in the Appendix. Accepted for publication in JHEP

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