Note on Discrete Gauge Anomalies

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2 October 1991

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9109045

Abstract

We consider the probem of gauging discrete symmetries. All valid constraints on such symmetries can be understood in the low energy theory in terms of instantons. We note that string perturbation theory often exhibits global discrete symmetries, which are broken non-perturbatively.

Keywords

DISCRETE SYMMETRIES
PERTURBATION THEORY
GAUGE ANOMALIES
DISCRETE GAUGE
LOW ENERGY
THEORY
PROBEM

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Published version: Physical Review D, 45 (4), 1424.

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