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Bounds on triangle anomalies in (3+1) D

  • Ying Hsuan Lin
  • , David Meltzer
  • , Shu Heng Shao
  • , Andreas Stergiou
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division

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Abstract

How many charged degrees of freedom are necessary to accommodate a certain amount of 't Hooft anomaly? Using the conformal bootstrap for the four-point function of flavor current multiplets, we show that in all (3+1)D superconformal field theories the 't Hooft anomaly of a continuous flavor symmetry is bounded from above by the 3/2 power of the current two-point function coefficient, which can be thought of as a measure for the amount of charged degrees of freedom. We check our bounds against free fields and supersymmetric quantum chromodynamics in the conformal window.

Original languageEnglish
Article number125007
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume101
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 15 2020

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