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Gauge-anomaly cancellation

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Cancellation of all local gauge anomalies among chiral fermion representations, required for a consistent quantum gauge theory; the Standard Model representation assignments satisfy these constraints.

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Standard Model of particle physicsGauge-anomaly cancellation

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For the complete chiral fermion content of each Standard Model generation, the hypercharges and color/weak representations cancel the perturbative gauge, mixed gauge–gravitational, and cubic hypercharge anomalies. An isolated chiral multiplet generally does not.

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Gauge-anomaly cancellationStandard Model of particle physics

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Gauge-anomaly cancellation is a non-negotiable consistency condition on Standard Model chiral field content.

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