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One-generation hypercharge anomaly traces (trL​Y3=trR​Y3=−2/9)

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In normalization Q=T3​+Y, one Standard Model generation has left quark and lepton doublet hypercharges 1/6 and −1/2, and right singlet hypercharges 2/3,−1/3,−1. Including colour multiplicity, trL​Y=6/6−2/2=0. On every left doublet T32​=I/4, and all right fields have T3​=0, so the mixed weak-hypercharge gauge anomaly vanishes. The cubic left trace is 6(1/6)3+2(−1/2)3=−2/9, and the right trace is 3(2/3)3+3(−1/3)3+(−1)3=−2/9. Their difference is zero, proving generation-by-generation cancellation of these two anomalies.

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