Anomaly-safe discrete groups

We show that there is a class of finite groups, the so-called perfect groups, which cannot exhibit anomalies. This implies that all non-Abelian finite simple groups are anomaly-free. On the other hand, non-perfect groups generically suffer from anomalies. We present two different ways that allow one...

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Main Authors: Mu-Chun Chen, Maximilian Fallbacher, Michael Ratz, Andreas Trautner, Patrick K.S. Vaudrevange
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-07-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315003846