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Scale-Invariant Models of Gravity and Particle Physics and their Cosmological Implications

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CPT, Lorentz invariance and anomalous clash of symmetries

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Anomaly holography, the Wess-Zumino-Witten term, and electroweak symmetry breaking

I consider anomalies in effective field theories (EFTs) of gauge fields coupled to fermions on an interval in AdS(5), and their holographic duals. The anomalies give rise to constraints on the consistent EFT description, which are stronger than the usual f ...

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Anomalous Abelian solitons

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The chiral Abelian Higgs model contains an interesting class of solitons found by Rubakov and Tavkhelidze. These objects carry non-zero fermion number NF (or Chern-Simons number NCS, what is the same because of the chiral anomaly) and are stable for suffic ...

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