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Anomaly Cancellation and Modularity. II: $E_8\times E_8$ case

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-09-21 v1 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

In this paper we show that both of the Green-Schwarz anomaly factorization formula for the gauge group E8×E8E_8\times E_8 and the Ho\v{r}ava-Witten anomaly factorization formula for the gauge group E8E_8 can be derived through modular forms of weight 14. This answers a question of J. H. Schwarz. We also establish generalizations of these factorization formulas and obtain a new Ho\v{r}ava-Witten type factorization formula.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1209.4540,
  title  = {Anomaly Cancellation and Modularity. II: $E_8\times E_8$ case},
  author = {Fei Han and Kefeng Liu and Weiping Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.4540},
  year   = {2012}
}
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