Vector Symmetries and Θ-vacuum
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Under very general assumptions we show that Vafa-Witten theorem on vector symmetries in vector-like theories can be extended to some physically relevant gauge theories with non-positive definite integration measure as QCD with a Θ-vacuum term.
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