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Much insight into the dynamics of quantum field theories can be gained by studying the relationship between field theories in different dimensions. An interesting observation is that when two theories are related by dimensional reduction on a compact surface, their ’t Hooft anomalies corresponding to continuous symmetries are also related: the anomaly polynomial of the lower-dimensional theory can be obtained by integrating that of the higher-dimensional one on the compact surface. Naturally, this relation only holds if both theories are even dimensional. This raises the question of whether similar relations can also hold for the case of anomalies in discrete symmetries, which might be true even in odd dimensions. The natural generalization to discrete symmetries is that the anomaly theories, associated with the lower and higher dimensional theories, would be related by reduction on the compact surface. We explore this idea for compactifications of 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) to 3d on Riemann surfaces with global-symmetry fluxes. In this context, it can be used both as a check for these compactification constructions and for discovering new anomalies in the 5d SCFTs. This opens the way to applying the same idea of dimensional reduction of the anomaly theory to more general types of compactifications.
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We would like to thank Yichul Choi, Zohar Komargodski, Shlomo Razamat and Sakura Schäfer-Nameki for useful discussions and comments. MS is partially supported by the ERC Consolidator Grant #864828 “Algebraic Foundations of Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theory (SCFTAlg)” and by the Simons Collaboration for the Nonperturbative Bootstrap under grant #494786 from the Simons Foundation. GZ is also partially supported by the Simons Foundation grant 815892. OS is supported by the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCLA.
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Sacchi, M., Sela, O. & Zafrir, G. 5d to 3d compactifications and discrete anomalies. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 185 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)185
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