Gravity-gauge anomaly constraints on the energy-momentum tensor

A bstract We derive constraints on the four dimensional energy-momentum tensor from gravitational and gauge anomalies. Our work can be considered an extension of Duff’s analysis 1 to include parity-odd terms and explicit symmetry breaking. The constraints imply the absence of the parity-odd R R R R ~ and F F F F ~ terms, for theories whose symmetries are compatible with dimensional regularisation, in a model-independent way. Remarkably, even in the case of explicit symmetry breaking the □ R -anomaly is found to be finite and unambiguous after applying the symmetry constraints. We compute mixed gravity-gauge anomalies at leading order and deduce phenomenological consequences for vector bosons associated with global chiral symmetries.