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arxiv: hep-ph/9211299 · v1 · submitted 1992-11-24 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-th

A New Anomaly Matching Condition?

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keywords conditionsgroupmatchingwittenanomalygenghooftresult
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We formulate ``Witten'' matching conditions for confining gauge theories. The conditions are analogous to 't Hooft's, but involve Witten's global SU(2) anomaly. Using a group theoretic result of Geng, Marshak, Zhao and Okubo, we show that if the fourth homotopy group of the flavor group $H$ is trivial ($\Pi_4(H) = 0$) then realizations of massless composite fermions that satisfy the 't Hooft conditions also satisfy the Witten conditions. If $\Pi_4 (H)$ is nontrivial, the new matching conditions can yield additional information about the low energy spectrum of the theory. We give a simple physical proof of Geng, et. al.'s result.

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