Hamiltonian anomalies from extended field theories

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2369-XzbMATH Open1336.81082arXiv1410.7442OpenAlexW3104205647MaRDI QIDQ2354007FDOQ2354007

Authors: S. Monnier 

Publication date: 10 July 2015

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a proposal by Freed to see anomalous field theories as relative field theories, namely field theories taking value in a field theory in one dimension higher, the anomaly field theory. We show that when the anomaly field theory is extended down to codimension 2, familiar facts about Hamiltonian anomalies can be naturally recovered, such as the fact that the anomalous symmetry group admits only a projective representation on the state space, or that the latter is really an abelian gerbe rather than an ordinary Hilbert space. We include in the discussion the case of non-invertible anomaly field theories, which is relevant to six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal theories. In this case, we show that the Hamiltonian anomaly is characterized by a degree 2 non-abelian group cohomology class, associated to the non-abelian gerbe playing the role of the state space of the anomalous theory. We construct Dai-Freed theories, governing the anomalies of chiral fermionic theories, and Wess-Zumino theories, governing the anomalies of Wess-Zumino terms, as extended field theories down to codimension 2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7442

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zbMATH Keywords

anomaliesextended field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Projective representations and multipliers (20C25)

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