Anomaly of non-Abelian discrete symmetries
Abstract
We study anomalies of non-Abelian discrete symmetries; which part of non-Abelian group is anomaly free and which part can be anomalous. It is found that the anomaly-free elements of the group generate a normal subgroup of and the residue class group , which becomes the anomalous part of , is isomorphic to a single cyclic group. The derived subgroup of is useful to study the anomaly structure. This structure also constrains the structure of the anomaly-free subgroup; the derived subgroup should be included in the anomaly-free subgroup. We study the detail structure of the anomaly-free subgroup from the structure of the derived subgroup in various discrete groups. For example, when and , in particular, and are at least included in the anomaly-free subgroup, respectively. This result holds in any arbitrary representations.
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@article{arxiv.2111.10811,
title = {Anomaly of non-Abelian discrete symmetries},
author = {Tatsuo Kobayashi and Hikaru Uchida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10811},
year = {2022}
}
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25 pages, 1 figure