Gauge Defect Networks in Two-Dimensional CFT

2013/01/07 by Suszek, Rafał R.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1301.1121

Abstract

An interpretation of the gauge anomaly of the two-dimensional multi-phase sigma model is presented in terms of an obstruction to the existence of a topological defect network implementing a local trivialisation of the gauged sigma model.

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