Generalized 't Hooft anomalies on non-spin manifolds

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)097zbMATH Open1436.81128arXiv2002.02037OpenAlexW3004914101MaRDI QIDQ780756FDOQ780756

Erich Poppitz, Mohamed M. Anber

Publication date: 15 July 2020

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

Abstract: We study the mixed anomaly between the discrete chiral symmetry and general baryon-color-flavor (BCF) backgrounds in $SU(N_c)$ gauge theories with $N_f$ flavors of Dirac fermions in representations ${calR}_c$ of $N$-ality $n_c$, formulated on non-spin manifolds. We show how to study these theories on $mathbb{CP}^2$ by turning on general BCF fluxes consistent with the fermion transition functions. We consider several examples in detail and argue that matching the anomaly on non-spin manifolds places stronger constraints on the infrared physics, compared to the ones on spin manifolds (e.g.~$mathbb{T}^4$). We also show how to consistently formulate various chiral gauge theories on non-spin manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02037

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zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in field and string theoriesglobal symmetriesdiscrete symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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