Axial vector current of exact chiral symmetry on the lattice

Yoshio Kikukawa, Atsushi Yamada

Published 1998-08-21, updated 1998-09-08Version 2

We discuss the exact chiral symmetry and its spontaneous breakdown in lattice QCD with the Dirac operators satisfying the Ginsparg-Wilson relation. The axial vector current, which turns out to be related to the vector current simply by the insertion of the operator \gamma_5 (1-aD), is explicitly constructed in the case of the Neuberger-Dirac operator. We also consider an Euclidean proof of the Nambu-Goldstone theorem using the Ward-Takahashi identity of this symmetry.