English

All-order generalized Green-Schwarz transformations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-11-14 v1

Abstract

Compatibility with T-duality severely constrains higher-derivative corrections to the low-energy supergravity limits of string theory. For example, it suggests that Lorentz transformations for heterotic strings are modified in precisely the way required for the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism. A systematic procedure to construct the resulting generalized Green-Schwarz transformations is the generalized Bergshoeff-de Roo identification (gBdRi). Although it in principle allows computing α\alpha'-corrections to higher and higher orders, technically it becomes unfeasible beyond α2\alpha'^2. We revisit this problem with an alternative approach to the gBdRi, which we have recently developed. It gives rise to a very simple all-order transformation law whose closure we verify by explicitly computing the resulting gauge algebra.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.09615,
  title  = {All-order generalized Green-Schwarz transformations},
  author = {Achilleas Gitsis and Falk Hassler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.09615},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages

R2 v1 2026-07-01T07:34:28.274Z