Physlib.Particles.StandardModel.AnomalyCancellation.Basic
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Charges of the -family Standard Model
#SMChargesFor a natural number representing the number of fermion generations (families), `SMCharges n` is the system of charges for the Standard Model without right-handed neutrinos. It is defined as an anomaly cancellation condition (ACC) system with charges, representing the 5 species of fermions (typically the left-handed quark doublet , right-handed up-type quark , right-handed down-type quark , left-handed lepton doublet , and right-handed charged lepton ) across each of the families.
Charge system for a single fermion species with families
#SMSpeciesFor a natural number , representing the number of fermion generations (families) in the Standard Model, `SMSpecies n` is the system of charges associated with a single species of fermions. This defines a vector space of dimension (typically over the rational numbers ) where each component corresponds to the charge of that specific species in one of the families.
Equivalence between -family charges and species-family maps
#toSpeciesEquivFor a Standard Model with families, this equivalence identifies the set of charges with the set of functions . This maps the total collection of rational charges to a representation organized by the five fermion species (the index representing ) and the families (the index ).
Linear projection of -family charges to the -th species
#toSpeciesFor a given index representing one of the five fermion species in the -family Standard Model (typically ), this definition is a -linear map that projects the total collection of charges, , onto the charges associated with the -th species, .
For two charge assignments in the -family Standard Model, is equal to if and only if for every fermion species index , the projection of onto the -th species is equal to the projection of onto the -th species. That is, .
Projection of reconstructed -family charges onto species equals
#toSMSpecies_toSpecies_invIn the Standard Model with fermion families, let be a function that assigns rational charges to each of the five fermion species () across the families. If we reconstruct the total charge vector from using the inverse of the species-family equivalence (), then the linear projection of onto the -th species () is identical to the -th component of the original configuration . That is, for any :
Linear projection onto species charges
#QFor a Standard Model with fermion families, `SMCharges.Q` is the -linear projection that extracts the charges of the species (left-handed quark doublets) from the total collection of fermion charges. It maps a charge configuration to a vector in , where each component for represents the rational charge assigned to the field in the -th generation.
Projection to right-handed up-type quark charges
#UFor the -family Standard Model, `SMCharges.U` is the -linear map that projects the total configuration of charges onto the rational charges associated with the right-handed up-type quark species (). Specifically, given a total charge assignment, it extracts the vector in where each component corresponds to the charge of the fermion in the -th generation for .
Linear projection to down-type quark charges
#DFor an -family Standard Model, `SMCharges.D` is the -linear map that projects the total collection of fermion charges onto the charges associated with the right-handed down-type quark species (). The result is an element in , effectively a vector representing the charges of the down-type quarks across all generations.
Linear projection to the lepton charges
#LFor a given set of charges representing the fermion species in the -family Standard Model, this definition is the -linear projection that extracts the charges associated specifically with the left-handed lepton doublet . It maps the total charge vector in to the specific charges for each of the fermion families.
Linear projection to the charges of the right-handed charged lepton species
#EFor an -family Standard Model, `SMCharges.E` is the -linear map that projects the total system of fermion charges onto the charges associated with the fifth fermion species, which corresponds to the right-handed charged leptons (or ). Given a total charge vector , the map returns a vector in representing the charges assigned to the species across all generations.
Gravitational anomaly equation:
#accGravFor a Standard Model with fermion families, let be the collection of charges for all fermion species. Let and denote the charges of the left-handed quark doublet, right-handed up-type quark, right-handed down-type quark, left-handed lepton doublet, and right-handed charged lepton for the -th generation, respectively, where . The gravitational anomaly is defined as the -linear map: This expression represents the linear gravitational anomaly cancellation condition, where the coefficients correspond to the number of degrees of freedom (color and weak isospin) for each fermion species.
The gravitational anomaly depends only on the sum of charges per species.
#accGrav_extConsider an -family Standard Model. Let and be two sets of rational charges for the fermion representations in the model. Let index the five fermion species () and let denote the charge of the -th generation of species under the charge assignment . If for every species , the sum of charges over all families is equal for and : then the gravitational anomaly is equal to , where the gravitational anomaly is defined as:
anomaly equation:
#accSU2For a Standard Model with fermion families, let be the collection of charges for all species. Let denote the charge of the left-handed quark doublet and denote the charge of the left-handed lepton doublet for the -th generation, where . The anomaly is defined as the -linear map: This expression represents the gauge anomaly cancellation condition associated with the gauge group, where the factor of 3 accounts for the number of color degrees of freedom for the quarks.
Equality of species charge sums implies equality of anomalies
#accSU2_extIn the -family Standard Model, let and be two charge configurations. If for each of the five fermion species , the sum of the charges across all families is the same for and , such that then the gauge anomalies of the two configurations are equal: Here, is defined as , where and are the charges of the -th family left-handed quark and lepton doublets, respectively.
anomaly equation:
#accSU3For a Standard Model with fermion families, let be the collection of charges for all fermion species. Let , , and denote the charges of the left-handed quark doublet, the right-handed up-type quark, and the right-handed down-type quark for the -th generation (), respectively. The anomaly is defined as the -linear map: This expression represents the gauge anomaly cancellation condition associated with the gauge group. The factor of 2 for the charges accounts for the doublet nature of the left-handed quarks.
Equality of species charge sums implies equality of anomalies
#accSU3_extIn the -family Standard Model, let and be two charge configurations. If for each of the five fermion species , the sum of the charges across all families is the same for and , such that then the gauge anomalies of the two configurations are equal: Here, is defined as the sum , where and are the rational charges of the -th generation left-handed quark doublet, right-handed up-type quark, and right-handed down-type quark, respectively.
Linear map for the anomaly equation
#accYYThis linear map from the space of charges to the rational numbers represents the anomaly cancellation condition for a Standard Model with fermion families. For a given charge assignment , the map is defined by summing the charges across all generations as follows: where and are the rational charges assigned to the -th generation of the five fermion species: the left-handed quark doublet (), the right-handed up-type quark (), the right-handed down-type quark (), the left-handed lepton doublet (), and the right-handed charged lepton (), respectively.
if total charges per species are equal
#accYY_extLet and be two sets of charges for the -family Standard Model. If for each of the five fermion species , the sum of charges across all families is the same for and , i.e., then the anomaly cancellation condition values are equal: where is defined by the linear map .
Symmetric bilinear map for -family SM charges
#quadBiLinThis definition defines a symmetric bilinear map on the space of charges for the -family Standard Model without right-handed neutrinos. Given two charge configurations and in , the map evaluates to the rational sum over the generations: where , and denote the rational charges in the -th generation for the left-handed quark doublet, right-handed up-type quark, right-handed down-type quark, left-handed lepton doublet, and right-handed charged lepton, respectively.
Quadratic anomaly cancellation condition for the -family Standard Model
#accQuadFor the -family Standard Model without right-handed neutrinos, `SMACCs.accQuad` is the homogeneous quadratic map that represents the quadratic anomaly cancellation condition. For a charge configuration , it is defined as the sum over the generations: where , and denote the rational charges of the -th generation for the left-handed quark doublet, right-handed up-type quark, right-handed down-type quark, left-handed lepton doublet, and right-handed charged lepton, respectively.
Equality of Species-wise Sums of Squares implies Equality of
#accQuad_extLet and be two charge configurations for the -family Standard Model. Let denote the charge of fermion species (corresponding to the species ) in the -th generation for configuration . If for every species , the sum of the squares of the charges across all generations is the same for and , i.e., then the quadratic anomaly cancellation condition evaluates to the same value for both configurations: This is an extensionality lemma for the quadratic anomaly cancellation condition.
Symmetric trilinear form for the -family Standard Model cubic anomaly condition
#cubeTriLinLet be the space of charges for the -family Standard Model, where an element represents a collection of rational charges for the five fermion species across generations: (left-handed quark doublet), (right-handed up-type quark), (right-handed down-type quark), (left-handed lepton doublet), and (right-handed charged lepton). `SMACCs.cubeTriLin` is the symmetric trilinear form defined by summing the products of the charges of each species over the families, weighted by their respective gauge representation dimensions: where denote the charges of the -th generation of the -th charge configuration.
Cubic anomaly cancellation condition for the -family Standard Model
#accCubeLet be the module of charges for the -family Standard Model, where a charge configuration assigns rational charges to the five species of fermions for each generation . The cubic anomaly cancellation condition (ACC) is defined as the homogeneous cubic map given by evaluating the symmetric trilinear form on the diagonal : This sum represents the total cubic gauge anomaly, where the coefficients correspond to the dimensions of the representations of the respective fermion species under the Standard Model gauge group.
Let and be two charge configurations for the -family Standard Model, assigning rational charges to the five species of fermions for each generation . If for each species , the sum of the cubes of the charges across all generations is the same for both and , i.e., then the values of the cubic anomaly cancellation condition for and are equal: .
