't Hooft anomalies and boundaries

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2018)085zbMATH Open1384.83059arXiv1710.07299OpenAlexW3106197262MaRDI QIDQ1745501FDOQ1745501

Amos Yarom, Evgeny Shaverin, Kristan Jensen

Publication date: 17 April 2018

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

Abstract: We argue that there is an obstruction to placing theories with 't Hooft anomalies on manifolds with a boundary, unless the symmetry associated with the anomaly can be represented as a non-invariance under an Abelian transformation. For a two dimensional conformal field theory we further demonstrate that all anomalies except the usual trace anomaly are incompatible on a manifold with a boundary. Our findings extend a known result whereby, under mild assumptions, Lagrangian theories with chiral matter cannot be canonically quantized.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07299

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryanomalies in field and string theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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