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Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1558–1561 (1998)

Wess-Zumino Terms in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

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Aneesh V. Manohar
Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0319

Received 27 May 1998; published in the issue dated 24 August 1998

The Wess-Zumino term is constructed for supersymmetric QCD with two colors and flavors and is shown to correctly reproduce the anomalous Ward identities. Supersymmetric QCD is also shown not to have topologically stable Skyrmion solutions because of baryon flat directions, which allow them to unwind. The generalization of these results to other supersymmetric theories with quantum modified constraints is discussed.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1558
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1558
PACS:
11.30.Pb, 11.15.Tk