Fivebrane Gravitational Anomalies
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
Freed, Harvey, Minasian and Moore have proposed a mechanism to cancel the gravitational anomaly of the M-theory fivebrane coming from diffeomorphisms acting on the normal bundle. This procedure is based on a modification of the conventional M-theory Chern-Simons term. We compactify this space-time interaction to the ten-dimensional type IIA theory. We then analyze the relation to the anomaly cancellation mechanism for the type IIA fivebrane proposed by Witten.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9911138,
title = {Fivebrane Gravitational Anomalies},
author = {Katrin Becker and Melanie Becker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9911138},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
20 pages, Tex, no figures. Added References