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Anomalies of the SO(32) five-brane and their cancellation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

The anomaly due to the chiral fermions on the world-volume of the SO(32) five-brane is calculated. It is shown that this contribution has the correct structure for it to be cancelled by the variation of the classical world-volume action. The cancellation mechanism requires a Green-Schwarz-like term in the classical action. The result confirms the field content of the SO(32) five-brane proposed by Witten.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9709012,
  title  = {Anomalies of the SO(32) five-brane and their cancellation},
  author = {J. Mourad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9709012},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, LaTeX