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Global anomalies and chiral p-forms

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-03-08 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

This is a short review of the papers arXiv:1109.2904 and arXiv:1110.4639. After a reminder about local and global gravitational anomalies, we sketch the derivation of the global gravitational anomaly of the self-dual field theory (also known as chiral p-form). We then show that "cohomological" type IIB supergravity is free of global gravitational anomalies on all ten-dimensional spin manifolds

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@article{arxiv.1211.2167,
  title  = {Global anomalies and chiral p-forms},
  author = {Samuel Monnier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2167},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

11 pages, written for the proceedings of QQQ Tallinn '12. v2: Acknowledgments for support added

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