Fermion Number Conservation Isn't Fermion Conservation
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✦ hep-lat
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fermionconservationexactnumberannihilationargueaxialcorresponding
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A nonperturbative regularization of the Standard Model may have a superficially undesirable exact global U(1) symmetry corresponding to exact fermion number conservation. We argue that such a formulation can still have the desired physics of fermion nonconservation, i.e. fermion particle creation and annihilation by sphaleron transitions. We illustrate our reasoning in massless axial QED in 1+1 dimensions.
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