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 compactifications. A suprise is found: If one includes a 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 .
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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