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Confluences of Anomaly Freedom Requirements in M-theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

A topological fact about eleven dimensions is used to motivate a potential new duality in M-theory. We complete the discussion of consistent limits of M-theory raised in a previous paper to include gravitational anomaly cancelation and four-form flux quantization in the context of the M10×S1/Z2M^{10}\times S^1/Z_2 compactifications. A suprise is found: If one includes a Z2Z_2 anomaly which exists only in 8k+3 dimensions then there are two distinct quantum limits, one related to each of two equivalency classes of the orbifolds M10×S1/Z2M^{10}\times S^1/Z_2.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9803254,
  title  = {Confluences of Anomaly Freedom Requirements in M-theory},
  author = {Michael Faux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9803254},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages, LaTeX, minor typos corrected