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Non-renormalization of induced charges and constraints on strongly coupled theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

It is shown that global fermionic charges induced in vacuum by slowly varying, topologically non-trivial background scalar fields are not renormalized provided that expansion in momenta of background fields is valid. This suggests that strongly coupled theories obey induced charge matching conditions which are analogous, but generally not equivalent, to 't Hooft anomaly matching conditions. We give a few examples of induced charge matching. In particular, the corresponding constraints in softly broken supersymmetric QCD suggest non-trivial low energy mass pattern, in full accord with the results of direct analyses.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9903155,
  title  = {Non-renormalization of induced charges and constraints on strongly coupled theories},
  author = {S. L. Dubovsky and D. S. Gorbunov and M. V. Libanov and V. A. Rubakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9903155},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

19 pages, LaTeX, two PS figures; Submitted to special issue of Phys. Reports dedicated to 70th birthday of L.B.Okun