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Anomalies are important in quantum field theories, particularly in the gauge field theories because they determine quantum consistency of the theory. The word anomaly, in fact, is bit of a misnomer, and a more accurate description of anomaly is quantum mechanical symmetry breaking. Symmetries of a classical field theory can be broken in various different ways.
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Jatkar, D.P. (2016). Introduction to Anomalies. In: Rangarajan, R., Sivakumar, M. (eds) Surveys in Theoretical High Energy Physics - 2. Texts and Readings in Physical Sciences, vol 15. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2591-4_4
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