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Publications [#269648] of David R. Smith

Papers Published

  1. Skiba, W; Smith, D, Localized fermions and anomaly inflow via deconstruction, Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 65 no. 9 (January, 2002), pp. 7, ISSN 0556-2821 [doi]
    (last updated on 2024/03/28)

    Abstract:
    We study fermion localization in gauge theory space. We consider four-dimensional product gauge groups in which light chiral fermions transform under different gauge factors of the product group. This construction provides a suppression of higher dimensional operators. For example, it can be used to suppress dangerous proton decay operators. The anomalies associated with the light chiral fermions are compensated by Wess-Zumino terms, which in the continuum limit reproduce the five-dimensional Chern-Simons term. © 2002 The American Physical Society.


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