Continuous translations are broken by an ABJ-like anomaly to a discrete non-Abelian symmetry in a broad class of non-relativistic continuum field theories.
K-Theory in Quantum Field Theory
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We survey three different ways in which K-theory in all its forms enters quantum field theory. In Part 1 we give a general argument which relates topological field theory in codimension two with twisted K-theory, and we illustrate with some finite models. Part 2 is a review of pfaffians of Dirac operators, anomalies, and the relationship to differential K-theory. Part 3 is a geometric exposition of Dirac charge quantization, which in superstring theories also involves differential K-theory. Parts 2 and 3 are related by the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism. An appendix, joint with Jerry Jenquin, treats the partition function of Rarita-Schwinger fields.
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Anomalous Continuous Translations
Continuous translations are broken by an ABJ-like anomaly to a discrete non-Abelian symmetry in a broad class of non-relativistic continuum field theories.