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20242026
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6 papers

hep-th2026

Baryons, Skyrmions and -periodicity anomaly in chiral and vector-like gauge theories

Stefano Bolognesi, Andrea Luzio, Giacomo Santoni

In this paper, we study the baryons and solitons of chiral and vector-like gauge theories with matter in mixed one and two-index representations. Focusing on the Color-flav…

hep-th2025

A novel strategy to prove chiral symmetry breaking in QCD-like theories

Luca Ciambriello, Roberto Contino, Andrea Luzio +2

We demonstrate that chiral symmetry breaking occurs in the confining regime of QCD-like theories with colors and flavors. Our proof is based on a novel strategy, called…

hep-th2025

Chiral gauge theories, generalized anomalies and breakdown of the color-flavor-locked center symmetry

Stefano Bolognesi, Kenichi Konishi, Andrea Luzio +1

We study the strong-interaction dynamics of a class of chiral gauge theories with a fermion in a symmetric second-rank tensor representation and a number of fermions i…

hep-th2024

On the Proof of Chiral Symmetry Breaking from Anomaly Matching in QCD-like Theories

Luca Ciambriello, Roberto Contino, Andrea Luzio +2

We critically reconsider the argument based on 't Hooft anomaly matching that aims at proving chiral symmetry breaking in confining four-dimensional QCD-like theories with

hep-th2024

Natural Anomaly Matching

Stefano Bolognesi, Kenichi Konishi, Andrea Luzio +1

In a large class of chiral gauge theories in four dimensions it was found that certain natural assumption about the bifermion condensates leads to the infrared effective theory whe…

hep-th2024

The Monopole-Fermion Problem in a Chiral Gauge Theory (the Model)

Stefano Bolognesi, Bruno Bucciotti, Andrea Luzio

The scattering of electrically charged fermions on magnetic monopole leads to the Callan-Rubakov problem. We discuss some aspects of this problem for Abelian gauge theories with ch…