Comments on Symmetric Mass Generation in 2d and 4d
High Energy Physics - Theory
2022-07-13 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
Symmetric mass generation is the name given to a mechanism for gapping fermions while preserving a chiral, but necessarily non-anomalous, symmetry. In this paper we describe how symmetric mass generation for continuous symmetries can be achieved using gauge dynamics in two and four dimensions. Various strong coupling effects are invoked, including known properties of supersymmetric gauge theories, specifically the phenomenon of s-confinement, and conjectured properties of non-supersymmetric chiral gauge theories.
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@article{arxiv.2104.03997,
title = {Comments on Symmetric Mass Generation in 2d and 4d},
author = {David Tong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03997},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
24 pages. v2 and v3: typos corrected