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 is trivial () then realizations of massless composite fermions that satisfy the 't Hooft conditions also satisfy the Witten conditions. If 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}
}
Comments
11 pages, LaTex, all macros included