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 2025 iii Paper 305 3 iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
There is no perturbative gauge anomaly because both the fundamental and adjoint representations are real or pseudoreal and have vanishing cubic gauge index. The Witten SU(2) anomaly also vanishes: the Dirac fermions give fundamental Weyl doublets, an even number, while the adjoint Weyl fermion is in an integer-isospin real representation.