Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 305 3 i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Count every right-handed field as a left-handed conjugate, which reverses its charge and conjugates its non-Abelian representation. The nontrivial local anomaly-cancellation conditions areThe pure anomaly cancels because the two triplets in balance the conjugates of and . There is no perturbative anomaly, and the Witten SU(2) anomaly also vanishes because the three colored quark doublets plus one lepton doublet make four. The mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly is excluded at this stage as requested.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 305 3 vi Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The coefficient of the mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly is the sum of all left-handed charges, with right-handed fields counted as conjugates:For the solution above,More invariantly, , , and make the expression vanish identically. Thus the unique cubic-anomaly solution automatically cancels the mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly.