A 't Hooft anomaly is an obstruction to gauging a global symmetry. It is preserved by renormalization-group flow and constrains possible infrared phases.
't Hooft anomaly matching requires the massless infrared degrees of freedom, topological sector, or symmetry-breaking pattern to reproduce every anomaly of an unbroken global symmetry measured in the ultraviolet theory.

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