Topological terms and anomaly matching in effective field theories on R^3 S^1. I: Abelian symmetries and intermediate scales

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2021)091MaRDI QIDQ2024262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erich Poppitz, F. David Wandler

Publication date 3 May 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14667

zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in field and string theoriesdiscrete symmetriesduality in gauge field theoriessupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We explicitly calculate the topological terms that arise in IR effective field theories for $SU(N)$ gauge theories on $mathbb{R}^{3}imes{S}^1$ by integrating out all but the lightest modes. We then show how these terms match all global-symmetry 't Hooft anomalies of the UV description. We limit our discussion to theories with abelian 0-form symmetries, namely those with one flavour of adjoint Weyl fermion and one or zero flavours of Dirac fermions. While anomaly matching holds as required, it takes a different form than previously thought. For example, cubic- and mixed-$U(1)$ anomalies are matched by local background-field-dependent topological terms (background TQFTs) instead of chiral-lagrangian Wess-Zumino terms. We also describe the coupling of 0-form and 1-form symmetry backgrounds in the magnetic dual of super-Yang-Mills theory in a novel way, valid throughout the RG flow and consistent with the monopole-instanton 't Hooft vertices. We use it to discuss the matching of the mixed chiral-center anomaly in the magnetic dual.

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