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Cancellation of global anomalies in spontaneously broken gauge theories

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I discuss the generalization to global gauge anomalies of the familiar procedure for the cancellation of local gauge anomalies in effective theories of spontaneously broken symmetries

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Fabbrichesi, M. Cancellation of global anomalies in spontaneously broken gauge theories. Pramana - J Phys 62, 725–727 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02705356

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