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Witten-Veneziano from Green-Schwarz

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider the U(1) problem within the AdS/CFT framework. We explain how the Witten-Veneziano formula for the eta' mass is related to a generalized Green-Schwarz mechanism. The closed string mode, that cancels the anomaly of the gauged U(1) axial symmetry, is identified with the eta' meson. In a particular set-up of D3-branes on a C3/(Z3xZ3) orbifold singularity, the eta' meson is a twisted-sector R-R field.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0404248,
  title  = {Witten-Veneziano from Green-Schwarz},
  author = {Adi Armoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0404248},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, LaTex. 1 eps figure. v2: minor changes, refs. added, to appear in JHEP