Anomalies, a mod 2 index, and dynamics of 2d adjoint QCD

Aleksey Cherman, Theodore Jacobson, Yuya Tanizaki +1

We show that $2$d adjoint QCD, an $SU(N)$ gauge theory with one massless adjoint Majorana fermion, has a variety of mixed 't Hooft anomalies. The anomalies are derived using a rece…