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Solving Gauge Anomaly Equations in the Standard Model using the Method of Chords

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-04-15 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In a recent paper, Allanach et al introduced a geometric method to solve the anomaly cancellation equations for a U(1)U(1) gauge theory with an arbitrary number of charges - the Method of Chords known in Diophantine analysis. We extend their result to non-Abelian gauge groups, and show that this method can be used to find the general solution to the anomaly cancellation equations for a theory with the Standard Model gauge group on a curved background. Given KK charges in (2,3)(\textbf{2}, \textbf{3}), LL charges in (2,1)(\textbf{2}, \textbf{1}), MM charges in (1,3)(\textbf{1}, \textbf{3}), and NN charges in (1,1)(\textbf{1}, \textbf{1}) representations of SU(2)×SU(3)SU(2)\times SU(3), the equations reduce to a homogeneous cubic Diophantine equation in K+L+M+N4K+L+M+N-4 variables.

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@article{arxiv.2111.04148,
  title  = {Solving Gauge Anomaly Equations in the Standard Model using the Method of Chords},
  author = {Dyuman Bhattacharya and Sayeh Rajabi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04148},
  year   = {2022}
}

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