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We show how chirality of the weak interactions stems from string independence in the string-local formalism of quantum field theory.

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  • 10 August 2018

    After formula (2.7a) of the paper, we omitted to indicate that its right-hand side, as a distribution in p, cannot be restricted to the zero-mass shell.

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  1. Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain

    José M. Gracia-Bondía

  2. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG , 36036–900, Brasil

    Jens Mund

  3. Escuela de Matemática, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, 11501, Costa Rica

    Joseph C. Várilly

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Gracia-Bondía, J.M., Mund, J. & Várilly, J.C. The Chirality Theorem. Ann. Henri Poincaré 19, 843–874 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-017-0637-3

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