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Integer obstruction to one-loop marginality with adjoint Dirac fermions

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For a non-Abelian simple gauge factor with CA​>0, pure Yang-Mills theory contributes −11CA​g3/[3(4π)2]. Adding ND​ adjoint Dirac spinors changes this to −CA​(11−4ND​)g3/[3(4π)2]. Vanishing would require ND​=11/4, which is not a nonnegative integer. This excludes cancellation by these fermions alone, apart from the trivial value g=0; other matter representations or fields change the coefficient.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2017 / iii / Paper 304 / 4 / iii / Solution
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