On Flavor Symmetry in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics

preprint2012arXivOpen access

Abstract

Using a well established method to engineer non abelian symmetries in superstring compactifications, we study the link between the point splitting method of Creutz et al of refs [1,2] for implementing flavor symmetry in lattice QCD; and singularity theory in complex algebraic geometry. We show amongst others that Creutz flavors for naive fermions are intimately related with toric singularities of a class of complex Kahler manifolds that are explicitly built here. In the case of naive fermions of QCD2N_{2N}, Creutz flavors are shown to live at the poles of real 2-spheres and carry quantum charges of the fundamental of [SU(2)]2N[SU(2)]^{2N}. We show moreover that the two Creutz flavors in Karsten-Wilczek model, with Dirac operator in reciprocal space of the form iγ1F1+iγ2F2+iγ3F3+isin⁡αγ4F4iγ_1 F_1+iγ_2 F_2 + iγ_3 F_3+\frac{i}{\sin α}γ_4 F_4, are related with the small resolution of conifold singularity that live at sin⁡α=0\sin α=0. Other related features are also studied.

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