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Bounds on Triangle Anomalies in (3+1)d

Authors :
Lin, Ying-Hsuan
Meltzer, David
Shao, Shu-Heng
Stergiou, Andreas
Source :
Phys. Rev. D 101, 125007 (2020)
Publication Year :
2019

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 SQCD in the conformal window.<br />Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures. v2: Typos fixed, presentation improved

Subjects

Subjects :
High Energy Physics - Theory

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Phys. Rev. D 101, 125007 (2020)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1909.11676
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.125007