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    Note on massless bosonic states in two-dimensional field theories

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    In a wide class of GL×GRG_L\times G_R invariant two-dimensional super-renormalizable field theories, the parity-odd part of the two-point function of global currents is completely determined by a fermion one-loop diagram. For any non-trivial fermion content, the two-point function possesses a massless pole which corresponds to massless bosonic physical states. As an application, we show that two-dimensional N=(2,2)\mathcal{N}=(2,2) supersymmetric gauge theory without a superpotential possesses U(1)L×U(1)RU(1)_L\times U(1)_R symmetry and contains one massless bosonic state per fixed spatial momentum. The N=(4,4)\mathcal{N}=(4,4) supersymmetric pure Yang-Mills theory possesses SU(2)L×SU(2)RSU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R symmetry, and there exist at least three massless bosonic states.Comment: 17pages, 4 figures, uses PTPTeX.cls and feynMF, added an appendi
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