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Two-dimensional gauge anomalies and $p$-adic numbers

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-09-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show how methods of number theory can be used to study anomalies in gauge quantum field theories in spacetime dimension two. To wit, the anomaly cancellation conditions for the abelian part of the local anomaly admit solutions if and only if they admit solutions in the reals and in the pp-adics for every prime pp and we use this to build an algorithm to find all solutions.

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@article{arxiv.2403.10611,
  title  = {Two-dimensional gauge anomalies and $p$-adic numbers},
  author = {Imogen Camp and Ben Gripaios and Khoi Le Nguyen Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10611},
  year   = {2024}
}

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5 pp

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