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is a chiral gauge theory. For topological reasons, chiral charged fermions cannot be given a mass without breaking the gauge symmetry, which will lead to inconsistencies unlike a global symmetry. It is notoriously difficult to construct a chiral gauge theory from a theory which does not already
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will have to break the gauge symmetry. This is responsible for gauge anomalies in the first place.
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contain chiral fields at the fundamental level. A consistent chiral gauge theory must have no
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Gauge theory where some left-handed and right-handed Weyl fermions have different charges
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273. Lattice Chiral Gauge Theories: What’s the Problem?
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is a quantum field theory with charged chiral (i.e.
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gauge anomaly
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Chiral anomaly
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