Notes on anomalies, elliptic curves and the BS-D conjecture

Joseph A. Minahan; Yongchao L\"u

Notes on anomalies, elliptic curves and the BS-D conjecture

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Pith's one-line read For triplet SU(2) fermions with compact U(1), anomaly-free rational hypercharges are finite only at N=3 and N=9.

desk verdict A correct and honest classification of rational hypercharges for a toy SU(N)xSU(2)xU(1) model, with the interesting twist that the answer depends on N and has special cases at N=3 and N=9; the central argument holds, modulo routine reliance on Cremona database ranks. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.04115 v2 pith:BKDF3P7Q submitted 2019-08-12 hep-th

Yongchao Lü , Joseph A. Minahan This is my paper · ORCID

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keywords anomalycancellationhyperchargequantizationellipticcurvesMordell-WeilgrouptorsionsubgroupBirch-Swinnerton-DyerconjecturerationalpointscompactU(1)

topics Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer

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The reading

This paper asks a simple question: if the weak gauge group acts on left-handed fermions in the triplet representation of SU(2), and the hypercharge gauge group is the compact U(1), which rational hypercharge assignments can satisfy all anomaly-cancellation conditions? The answer is that the admissible assignments are exactly the rational points on a one-parameter family of elliptic curves indexed by N, the number of colors. The curve has positive rank for every N except 3 and 9, giving infinitely many inequivalent rational charge assignments; for N=3 and N=9 the rank is zero, leaving exactly one and two nontrivial assignments respectively, up to overall scaling and relabeling, besides an almost trivial solution in each case. This is an example of a particle-physics consistency condition turning into a concrete question in arithmetic geometry.

What carries the argument

The central object is the elliptic curve $E_N: Y^2 = X^3 - 3(8N^2+1)X + 16N^4+40N^2-2$, obtained from the anomaly equations by a linear change of variables. Rational points on $E_N$ are in bijection with rational hypercharge assignments. The curve carries a group law: the rational points form a finitely generated abelian group, equal to a finite torsion subgroup plus $\mathbb{Z}^r$, where $r$ is the rank. The argument uses the fact that if there are more rational points than the torsion subgroup can contain, the rank is positive. Families of integer points are given explicitly; for general N these force $r>0$, while for N=3 and N=9 the duplications reduce them exactly to the Z9 and Z12 torsion points. The L-function $L(E_N,s)$ is used to certify rank zero in those two cases.

What would settle it

Compute or survey rational points on the N=3 and N=9 curves: finding any rational point outside the listed Z9 or Z12 torsion points would disprove the finite classification, while confirming that the reported nonzero L-value at the central point holds to enough precision would support it.

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Core claim

With left-handed quarks and leptons in the triplet of SU(2) and the color group SU(N), anomaly cancellation leaves a cubic equation in the hypercharges. Imposing compactness of U(1) makes the hypercharges rational, and after a linear change of variables the equation becomes the Weierstrass curve $Y^2 = X^3 - 3(8N^2+1)X + 16N^4+40N^2-2$. The paper shows that every rational point on this curve gives a rational hypercharge assignment, and conversely. The rational points form the finitely generated abelian Mordell-Weil group of the curve; for N=3 the torsion subgroup is Z9, giving one nontrivial assignment, and for N=9 the torsion subgroup is Z12, giving two inequivalent nontrivial assignments. For all other N the curve has positive rank, so there are infinitely many rational assignments. The rank-zero verdicts for N=3 and N=9 follow from computing the L-value $L(E,1)$ to be nonzero at the central point, invoking the theorem that nonzero L(E,1) forces rank zero for these curves.

Load-bearing premise

The finite classifications for N=3 and N=9 rest on the database entries saying those two elliptic curves have rank zero; if either rank were positive, that case would also admit infinitely many rational hypercharge assignments.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

For N=3, up to scaling and permutation the only nontrivial assignment is $(W_1,W_2,W_3)=(1,-5,7)$ with $(Y_1,Y_4,Y_5)=(-1,3,-9)$; for N=9 the two inequivalent nontrivial assignments are $(1,-17,19)$ and $(5,5,-13)$ with $(Y_1,Y_4,Y_5)=\pm(-1,9,-27)$.
For every N other than 3 and 9, the elliptic curve has positive rank, so there are infinitely many rational hypercharge assignments and the anomaly equations alone do not single out a finite spectrum.
The nontrivial N=3 assignment and one of the N=9 assignments are compatible with a $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_N$ center symmetry; the other N=9 assignment is compatible with $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_3$, and quotienting by these centers can reduce the gauge group, for instance to SO(3) if the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ is included.
Because $L(E_N,1)$ is nonzero for N=3 and N=9, approximately 1.0305 and 1.3376, the proved rank-zero case of the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture certifies that no further rational assignments exist.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same elliptic-curve reduction suggests a strategy for q>3: study the subvariety of the anomaly locus defined by rational hypercharge ratios and analyze its rational points, though the geometry will not be a single elliptic curve and the arithmetic is expected to be harder.
The exceptional N=3 and N=9 are the only cases where the torsion subgroup grows to Z9 and Z12; a testable extension is to scan large N for any other torsion enhancement, since those are the only places a finite classification could be recovered.
The paper leaves open whether, for q=3, every compact-U(1)-rational solution automatically cancels the mixed gravitational anomaly; checking that converse would clarify whether the finiteness results survive without the gravitational condition.
The reported first rank-two curve at N=18 and first rank-three at N=93 suggest that the number of independent rational hypercharge assignments grows with N; quantifying that growth would connect these models to the average-rank statistics of elliptic curves.

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Dear [Colleague],

The paper is a solid, honest note rather than a deep physics breakthrough. It classifies rational hypercharge assignments for an SU(N)xSU(2)xU(1) gauge theory with left-handed fields in the triplet of SU(2), assuming compact U(1). The answer is genuinely N-dependent: one nontrivial assignment for N=3, two for N=9, and infinitely many for every other N. This goes beyond Lohitsiri and Tong's q=2 analysis, where the answer is N-independent.

The main argument is clean and correct. The anomaly equations reduce explicitly to the elliptic curve Y^2 = X^3 - 3(8N^2+1)X + 16N^4+40N^2-2. The paper lists 15 integer points (plus the point at infinity) and uses Mazur's theorem to show the rank must be positive unless there are enough duplicates to make the total at most 12, which happens only for N=3 and N=9. For those two exceptional cases, the curve is identified with the Cremona entries 54b3 and 90c3, both certified rank zero via Kolyvagin's theorem. The L-function sketch in Section 5 is only a sketch, but it points to the actual computation and is not load-bearing: the database entry is the proof, and it is independently checkable.

The main soft spot is exactly that dependency. If either of those two database ranks were wrong, the classification would fail—there would be infinitely many solutions for N=3 or N=9. That is a standard and trustworthy external input, but the result is not self-contained. There is also a minor typo: the order-9 point for N=3 is printed as (-13,45) but should be (-13,48); the group-theoretic conclusion is unaffected. The torsion subgroup verifications are described as straightforward exercises, which is fair—they are not the hard part.

The paper is aimed at HEP theorists who want a clean example of arithmetic geometry constraining model building, and at mathematicians who enjoy seeing elliptic curves arise from physics. It does not claim more than it delivers, and the prose is refreshingly explicit about what is proven and what is delegated. I would cite it if I worked on anomaly structure with rational charge constraints.

Recommendation: send it to peer review. It deserves a serious referee—the central claim holds up, and the external dependency is honest and standard. The referee should independently confirm the two Cremona ranks and ask for a corrected typo, but there is no substantive flaw.

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Summary. The paper studies anomaly cancellation in SU(N) × SU(2) × U(1) gauge theories where all left-handed quarks and leptons transform in the triplet representation of SU(2). For a compact U(1) gauge group (rational hypercharges) and with mixed gravitational anomaly cancellation imposed, the anomaly equations reduce to an N-dependent elliptic curve in Weierstrass form. The authors classify the rational hypercharge assignments: up to overall scaling and relabeling, there is one nontrivial assignment for N = 3, two for N = 9, and infinitely many for every other N >= 2. The classification uses the Mordell–Weil theorem, Mazur's torsion theorem, an explicit list of rational points on the curve, and rank-zero certifications from the Cremona database for the exceptional cases.

Significance. If correct, the result is a clean arithmetic classification of hypercharge assignments in a simple extension of the Standard Model, connecting anomaly cancellation to the arithmetic of elliptic curves. The derivation is explicit and parameter-free: the elliptic curve is derived from first-principles anomaly conditions rather than fitted, and no free parameters appear. The paper is transparent about its use of external computational number theory, citing the Mordell–Weil theorem, Mazur's theorem, Kolyvagin's theorem, and the Cremona database. The explicit reduction to Weierstrass form and the identification of the exceptional cases N = 3 and N = 9 are strengths, and the L-function discussion provides a useful physics-oriented explanation of the rank-zero certification.

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[Section 3, paragraph after Eq. (3.7)] The point listed as (−13, ±45) for N = 3 should be (−13, ±48); the point (−13, 45) does not lie on the curve Y^2 = X^3 − 219X + 1654, whereas (−13, 48) does. This is a numerical typo and does not affect the conclusions.
[Section 3, paragraph after Eq. (3.7)] The claims that the eight distinct points in (3.7) together with O form the Z9 torsion subgroup for N = 3, and that the eleven distinct points together with O form the Z12 torsion subgroup for N = 9, are stated as a 'straightforward exercise' without a proof. Since these torsion identifications are used to enumerate the hypercharge assignments, please include a verification of the group law (for example, the order of a representative point via the duplication formula) or provide a reference to a computer check.
[Section 4 and Section 5] The rank-zero determination for the N = 3 and N = 9 curves is delegated to the Cremona database entries 54b3 and 90c3. Please state explicitly in the main text that the classification for these two values of N is conditional on the certified database entries, and that the L-function computation in Section 5 is intended as a consistency check rather than a rigorous proof, since no rigorous tail bound for the series in (5.8) is provided.
[Section 5, Eqs. (5.2)–(5.4)] The symbol q is used for the exponent in a(p^q) and a(p^{q+1}), but q already denotes the SU(2) representation dimension in Section 2. To avoid notational confusion, consider using n or k for these exponents.
[Section 3, footnote 2] The footnote describing an alternative proof via the Nagell–Lutz theorem says that rank positivity can be shown for all N except N = 3, 6, 9, but the main text's 15-point argument already covers N = 6 uniformly. This footnote is somewhat confusing and should clarify that it is an alternative route for most N, with N = 6 handled separately by the duplication formula.

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No significant circularity: the elliptic-curve classification is derived from first-principles anomaly equations and relies only on external, independently checkable arithmetic results.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is that for q = 3 the anomaly-cancellation conditions with compact U(1) reduce to the N-dependent elliptic curve (3.4), and that the rational hypercharge assignments are governed by its Mordell-Weil group. The reduction from the physical equations (2.2) and (2.4) to (3.1) and then to (3.4) is an explicit algebraic manipulation, not an ansatz or a fitted input: the new variables (3.2) are defined directly from the Wi, and no charge assignment is assumed before solving the curve. The classification for generic N follows from explicit rational points (3.7), Mazur's torsion theorem, and the Mordell-Weil theorem; this is a genuine mathematical argument with no fitted parameter. The exceptional cases N = 3 and N = 9 are settled by identifying the corresponding minimal curves as 54b3 and 90c3 in the Cremona database, whose rank-zero status is certified externally via Kolyvagin's theorem and the numerically evaluated L-values L(E,1) ≈ 1.0305 and 1.3376. This is an external, independently checkable dependency, not a self-referential one. The authors' own prior work appears only as background citations ([8], and [15] for Seiberg-Witten/SCFT context) and is not load-bearing for the anomaly classification. The discussion explicitly flags the assumption that the Cremona rank entries are correct, which is honest rather than circular. No equation in the paper is equivalent to its own conclusion by construction, and no fitted quantity is renamed as a prediction. The minor typo of (−13, 48) printed as (−13, 45) does not affect the argument. The derivation is self-contained apart from standard external theorems and database entries, so the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 7 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard theorems in arithmetic geometry and on the physical assumption that the anomaly cancellation conditions (2.2)-(2.4) are complete. No free parameters are fitted; the hypercharges are solved, not tuned. The only external computational input is the Cremona database for rank zero of two specific curves.

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domain assumption Anomaly cancellation conditions (2.2)-(2.4) constitute the complete set of consistency conditions for the SU(N) x SU(2) x U(1) gauge theory.
The paper derives the solution space from these equations without considering other potential anomalies (e.g., higher global anomalies). This is the physical input of the model.
domain assumption Compactness of the U(1) gauge group implies all hypercharge ratios are rational.
Invoked in the introduction and used throughout to restrict to rational points on the elliptic curve.
standard math Mordell-Weil theorem: E(Q) is finitely generated.
Used in Sec. 3 to structure the rational points as Z^r plus torsion.
standard math Mazur's theorem: the only possible torsion subgroups for elliptic curves over Q are Z_n (1<=n<=10,12) and Z2 times Z2n (1<=n<=4).
Used in Sec. 3 to narrow torsion subgroups to Z3, Z6, Z9, or Z12.
standard math Nagell-Lutz theorem: torsion points on a minimal integral Weierstrass curve have integer coordinates and Y=0 or Y^2 divides the discriminant.
Cited in Sec. 3 and used in a footnote to argue some points have infinite order.
standard math Kolyvagin's theorem: if L(E,1) is nonzero then E(Q) has rank 0; plus modularity of elliptic curves over Q (Breuil, Conrad, Diamond, Taylor).
Used in Sec. 5 to justify reading rank zero from the Cremona tables.
domain assumption Correctness of the Cremona elliptic curve database for the specific entries 54b3 and 90c3, including the rank-zero determination.
The paper does not prove rank zero itself; it relies on the database. Section 4 states the ranks are 'found to be zero' in the tables.

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abstract

We consider anomaly cancellation for $SU(N)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ gauge theories where the left-handed chiral multiplets are in higher $SU(2)$ representations. In particular, if the left-handed quarks and leptons transform under the triplet representation of $SU(2)$ and if the $U(1)$ gauge group is compact then up to an overall scaling there is only one possible nontrivial assignment for the hypercharges if $N=3$, and two if $N=9$. Otherwise there are infinitely many. We use the Mordell-Weil theorem, Mazur's theorem and the Cremona elliptic curve database which uses Kolyvagin's theorem on the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture to prove these statements.

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