TY - JOUR
T1 - An SU(2) anomaly
AU - Witten, Edward
N1 - Funding Information:
I Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY80-19754.
PY - 1982/11/18
Y1 - 1982/11/18
N2 - A new restriction of fermion quantum numbers in gauge theories is derived. For instance, it is shown that an SU(2) gauge theory with an odd number of left-handed fermion doublets (and no other representations) is mathematically inconsistent.
AB - A new restriction of fermion quantum numbers in gauge theories is derived. For instance, it is shown that an SU(2) gauge theory with an odd number of left-handed fermion doublets (and no other representations) is mathematically inconsistent.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(82)90728-6
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(82)90728-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000921531
VL - 117
SP - 324
EP - 328
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
IS - 5
ER -