Nothing anomalous about two-loop heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory: Consistency with the low energy theorem for spin-dependent Compton scattering

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The leading order contributions of processes involving anomalous pion-photon vertices to forward spin-dependent Compton scattering from nucleons are considered in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory. These all involve the exchange of three pions between one or two photons and the nucleon, and hence are two-loop processes. We find that the sum of these processes vanishes in the manner predicted by the low energy theorem of Low, Gell-Mann and Goldberger as the photon energy goes to zero. This provides the first consistency test of two-loop HBCPT.Comment: Minor typos corrected. 7 pages RevTeX, 1 eps figur