  Symmetric mass generation is the name given to a mechanism for gapping
fermions while preserving a chiral, but necessarily non-anomalous, symmetry. In
this paper we describe how symmetric mass generation for continuous symmetries
can be achieved using gauge dynamics in two and four dimensions. Various strong
coupling effects are invoked, including known properties of supersymmetric
gauge theories, specifically the phenomenon of s-confinement, and conjectured
properties of non-supersymmetric chiral gauge theories.
