I’m giving this tweet double duty. My mini-explanation also concisely tells you why anomalies are important in a QFT.
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My advisor is making me remove this beautiful Feynman diagram i made of anomaly cancellation, because anomaly cancellation is 'trivial' and 'everyone knows it already' .. just wanted to show someonepic.twitter.com/P4t8AGevP4
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Removing explanatory context because it is ‘common knowledge’ within a discipline is a fantastic way to keep research papers inaccessible to people working in other disciplines :-/
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Papers and theses are written not only for the profs but also for the undergraduates, and other people who are interested. One advice is to include a "trivial explanation" in the summary or in the intro, in addition all the other added valued research that is highly non trivial;)
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Your advisor should retract that statement and advice. Anomaly cancellation is not trivial, not everybody knows it. And if adding this content to the paper helps researchers understand it, then it's a better paper for including the explanation.
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I agree, a beautiful explanation or demonstration of something, should never be dismissed like that and is always worth the time/space.
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That's a shame. I am self-educated in PLT so I always appreciated when a paper would go over something "everybody knows". OH THAT'S WHAT THAT IS!
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For a thesis? I'd argue to keep it, a clearly written thesis can be a god send to future students studying the subject.
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It's not at all trivial and I really like your diagrams. I have a Feynman diagram tattooed on me and 100% of the people who have suffered through my drunken explanation of it have been happy to learn about it.
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