Gauge Anomaly Associated with the Majorana Fermion in 8k + 1 Dimensions

DOI10.1143/PTP.115.1129zbMATH Open1200.81163arXivhep-th/0601026MaRDI QIDQ5493052FDOQ5493052

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Publication date: 20 October 2006

Published in: Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using an elementary method, we show that an odd number of Majorana fermions in $8k+1$ dimensions suffer from a gauge anomaly that is analogous to the Witten global gauge anomaly. This anomaly cannot be removed without sacrificing the perturbative gauge invariance. Our construction of higher-dimensional examples ($kgeq1$) makes use of the SO(8) instanton on $S^8$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0601026

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35)

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