Anomaly of strings of 6d $\mathcal{N}{=}(1,0)$ theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-12-21 v2
Abstract
We obtain the anomaly polynomial of strings of general 6d theories in terms of anomaly inflow. Our computation sheds some light on the reason why the simplest 6d theory has flavor symmetry, and also partially explains a curious numerology in F-theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.05894,
title = {Anomaly of strings of 6d $\mathcal{N}{=}(1,0)$ theories},
author = {Hiroyuki Shimizu and Yuji Tachikawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05894},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
13 pages; v2: references added