Note on gauge and gravitational anomalies of discrete Z_N symmetries

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2018)015MaRDI QIDQ1745429zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Pritibhajan Byakti, Diptimoy Ghosh, Tarun Sharma

Publication date 17 April 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03837

zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in field and string theoriesdiscrete symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: In this note, we discuss the consistency conditions which a discrete $Z_N$ symmetry should satisfy in order that it is not violated by gauge and gravitational instantons. As examples, we enlist all the $Z_N$ $calR$-symmetries as well as non-$calR$ $Z_N$ symmetries (N=2,3,4) in the minimally supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) that are free from gauge and gravitational anomalies. We show that there exists non-anomalous discrete symmetries that forbid Baryon number violation up to dimension 6 level (in superspace). We also observe that there exists no non-anomalous $Z_3$ $calR$-symmetry in the MSSM. Furthermore, we point out that in a theory with one Majorana spin 3/2 gravitino, a large class of $Z_4$ $calR$-symmetries are violated in the presence of Eguchi-Hanson (EH) gravitational instanton. This is also in general true for higher $Z_N$ $calR$-symmetries. We also notice that in 4 dimensional $calN=1$ supergravity, the global $U(1)$ $calR$-symmetry is always violated by the EH instanton irrespective of the matter content of the theory.

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