Contributor info: Dr Joe Davighi

Joe Davighi, Nakarin Lohitsiri

SciPost Phys. 10, 074 (2021) · published 25 March 2021 | Toggle abstract · pdf

We give a general description of the interplay that can occur between local and global anomalies, in terms of (co)bordism. Mathematically, such an interplay is encoded in the non-canonical splitting of short exact sequences known to classify invertible field theories. We study various examples of the phenomenon in 2, 4, and 6 dimensions. We also describe how this understanding of anomaly interplay provides a rigorous bordism-based version of an old method for calculating global anomalies (starting from local anomalies in a related theory) due to Elitzur and Nair.