Chiral anomalies and rooted staggered fermions
arXiv:hep-lat/0701018 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.03.065
Abstract
A popular approximation in lattice gauge theory is an extrapolation in the number of fermion species away from the four fold degeneracy natural with the staggered fermion formulation. I show that the extrapolation procedure mutilates the expected continuum holomorphic behavior in the quark masses. The conventional resolution proposes canceling the unphysical singularities with a plethora of extra states appearing at finite lattice spacing. This unproven conjecture requires an explicit loss of unitarity and locality. Even if correct, the approach implies large cutoff effects in the low-energy flavor-neutral sector.
10 pages, no figures; revision includes various clarifications, a changed title, and an additional reference; version to appear in Physics Letters B
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