Clarifying Some Remaining Questions in the Anomaly Puzzle

Details Clarifying Some Remaining Questions in the Anomaly Puzzle Clarifying Some Remaining Questions in the Anomaly Puzzle

2010-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/1001.2364v3

Eur.Phys.J.C71:1570,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

22 pages, no figure. v2: minor changes. v3: sections re-organized. new subsections (IVA, IVB) added. references added

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1570-0

We discuss several points that may help to clarify some questions that remain about the anomaly puzzle in supersymmetric theories. In particular, we consider a general N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The anomaly puzzle concerns the question of whether there is a consistent way to put the R-current and the stress tensor in a single supercurrent, even though in the classical theory they are in the same supermultiplet. As is well known, the classically conserved supercurrent bifurcates into two supercurrents having different anomalies in the quantum regime. The most interesting result we obtain is an explicit expression for the lowest component of one of the two supercurrents in 4-dimensional spacetime, namely the supercurrent that has the energy-momentum tensor as one of its components. This expression for the lowest component is an energy-dependent linear combination of two chiral currents, which itself does not correspond to a classically conserved chiral current. The lowest component of the other supercurrent, namely, the R-current, satisfies the Adler-Bardeen theorem. The lowest component of the first supercurrent has an anomaly that we show is consistent with the anomaly of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. Therefore, we conclude that there is no consistent way to put the R-current and the stress tensor in a single supercurrent in the quantized theory. We also discuss and try to clarify some technical points in the derivations of the two-supercurrents in the literature. These latter points concern the significance of infrared contributions to the NSVZ beta-function and the role of the equations of motion in deriving the two supercurrents.

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