Integer obstruction to one-loop marginality with adjoint Dirac fermions
ID: integer-obstruction-to-one-loop-marginality-with-adjoint-dirac-fermions
For a non-Abelian simple gauge factor with , pure Yang-Mills theory contributes . Adding adjoint Dirac spinors changes this to . Vanishing would require , which is not a nonnegative integer. This excludes cancellation by these fermions alone, apart from the trivial value ; other matter representations or fields change the coefficient.
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