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Anomalies from the Wess-Zumino-Witten action

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We show that the two most frequent expressions for the anomalous commutators can be both derived from quantities associated with the WZW model.

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  1. Departamento de Física Teórica and IFIC (CSIC), Universidad de Valencia, E-46100, Burjasot (Valencia), Spain

    J. A. de Azcárraga & J. M. Izquierdo

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Work partially supported by CICYT (Spain) under grant # AEN90-0039

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de Azcárraga, J.A., Izquierdo, J.M. Anomalies from the Wess-Zumino-Witten action. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 49, 627–632 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01483579

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