Consistency Conditions for Kaluza-Klein Anomalies
- 2 May 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (18), 1347-1349
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.1347
Abstract
General consistency requirements on anomalies in dimensions are derived with topological techniques. It is shown that for a non-Abelian gauge theory the group-theoretic piece of the anomaly is an overall multiplicative factor for any even .
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