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A New Anomaly Matching Condition?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We formulate ``Witten'' matching conditions for confining gauge theories. The conditions are analogous to 't Hooft's, but involve Witten's global SU(2) anomaly. Using a group theoretic result of Geng, Marshak, Zhao and Okubo, we show that if the fourth homotopy group of the flavor group HH is trivial (Π4(H)=0\Pi_4(H) = 0) then realizations of massless composite fermions that satisfy the 't Hooft conditions also satisfy the Witten conditions. If Π4(H)\Pi_4 (H) is nontrivial, the new matching conditions can yield additional information about the low energy spectrum of the theory. We give a simple physical proof of Geng, et. al.'s result.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9211299,
  title  = {A New Anomaly Matching Condition?},
  author = {Vineer Bhansali and Stephen D. H. Hsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9211299},
  year   = {2009}
}

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