Global gravitational anomaly cancellation for five-branes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-04-21 v4 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We show that the global mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly of the worldvolume theory of the M5-brane vanishes, when the anomaly inflow from the bulk is taken into account. This result extends to the type IIA and heterotic five-branes. As a by-product, we provide a definition of the chiral fermionic fields for generic non-spin M5-brane worldvolume and determine the coupling between the self-dual field and the M-theory C-field.
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@article{arxiv.1310.2250,
title = {Global gravitational anomaly cancellation for five-branes},
author = {Samuel Monnier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2250},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
22 pages. v3: Minor improvements and references added. Version accepted for publication in ATMP