Local anomaly traces for a product gauge group

ID: local-anomaly-traces-for-a-product-gauge-group

For left-handed Weyl fermions in representations of a simple semisimple factor times , the displayed traces cancel the local cubic non-Abelian, mixed non-Abelian–Abelian, and cubic Abelian gauge anomalies. Include spectator multiplicities in every trace. A triangle with one non-Abelian insertion and two Abelian insertions vanishes by tracelessness. Coupling to gravity also requires , and global anomalies must be checked separately. For a conjugate representation the cubic coefficient changes sign but the Dynkin index does not.

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