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6 A New Lattice Action For Studying Topological Charge. 9 Pilar Hern´andez and Raman Sundrum∗ 9 1 Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA g u We review our recent proposal for a new lattice action for non-abelian gauge theories which reduces short-range lattice artifacts in the computation of the topological susceptibility. The standard Wilson action is replaced by A the Wilson action of a gauge covariant interpolation of the original fields to a finer lattice. We illustrate the 3 improved behavior of a same-philosophy new lattice action in the O(3) σ-model in two dimensions. 2 1 1. INTRODUCTION The topological susceptibility in QCD is ex- v 4 1 Field configurations with non-zero topological pected to scale as (mass) in the continuum limit. 3 However, it was found [2] that the Wilson action 1 charge are expected to have a strong influence gives rise to short-range fluctuations with non- 8 on the dynamics of asymptotically free theories. zero geometrical topological charge and such a 0 The study of these effects however requires non- small action that they overwhelm the contribu- 6 perturbative techniques and one would expect tion of slowly varying fields and can destroy the 9 that ultimately Monte Carlo methods on the lat- / expected scaling. It is easy to understand how t tice would be best suited to it. The gold-plated these fluctuations called dislo