English

Intersecting M2- and M5-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v3

Abstract

If an M2-brane intersects an M5-brane the canonical Wess-Zumino action is plagued by a Dirac-anomaly, i.e. a non-integer change of the action under a change of Dirac-brane. We show that this anomaly can be eliminated at the expense of a gravitational anomaly supported on the intersection manifold. Eventually we check that the last one is cancelled by the anomaly produced by the fermions present. This provides a quantum consistency check of these intersecting configurations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0402078,
  title  = {Intersecting M2- and M5-branes},
  author = {Kurt Lechner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0402078},
  year   = {2015}
}

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