Anomalies and Invertible Field Theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-06-24 v2 Mathematical Physics
Algebraic Topology
math.MP
Abstract
We give a modern geometric viewpoint on anomalies in quantum field theory and illustrate it in a 1-dimensional theory: supersymmetric quantum mechanics. This is background for the resolution of worldsheet anomalies in orientifold superstring theory.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1404.7224,
title = {Anomalies and Invertible Field Theories},
author = {Daniel S. Freed},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7224},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
21 pages, based talk at String-Math 2013; small corrections in v2