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Three-Form Gauging of axion Symmetries and Gravity
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Nonlinearly realized Abelian global symmetries can be reformulated as local shift symmetries gauged by three-form gauge fields. The anomalous symmetries of the Standard Model (such as Peccei-Quinn or $B+L$) can be dualized to local symmetries gauged by the Chern-Simons three-forms of the Standard Model gauge group. In this description the strong CP problem can be reformulated as the problem of a massless three-form field in QCD, which creates an arbitrary CP-violating constant four-form electric field in the vacuum. Both the axion as well as the massless quark solutions amount to simply Higgsing the three-form gauge field, hence screening the electric field in the vacuum. This language gives an alternative way for visualizing the physics of the axion solution as well as the degree of its vulnerability due to gravitational corrections. Any physics that can jeopardize the axion solution must take the QCD three-form out of the Higgs phase. This can only happen if the physics in question provides an additional massless three-form. The axion then Higgses one combination of the three-forms and the QCD electric field gets partially unscreened, reintroducing the strong CP problem. Gravity provides such a candidate in form of the Chern-Simons spin connection three-form, which could un-Higgs the QCD three-form in the absence of additional chiral symmetries. We also discuss analogous effects for the baryon number symmetry.
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