Abstract
Theory of elasticity in topological insulators has many common features with relativistic quantum fields interacting with gravitational field in the tetrad form. Here we discuss several issues in the effective topological (pseudo)electromagnetic response in three-dimensional weak crystalline topological insulators with no time-reversal symmetry that feature elasticity tetrads, including a mixed "axial-gravitational" anomaly. This response has some resemblance to "quasitopological" terms proposed for massless Weyl quasiparticles with separate, emergent fermion tetrads. As an example, we discuss the chiral/axial anomaly in superfluid 3He-A. We demonstrate the principal difference between the elasticity tetrads and the Weyl fermion tetrads in the construction of the topological terms in the action. In particular, the topological action expressed in terms of the elasticity tetrads, cannot be expressed in terms of the Weyl fermion tetrads since in this case the gauge invariance is lost.
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