The chiral anomaly from M theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We argue that the chiral anomaly of super Yang-Mills theory admits a dual description as spontaneous symmetry breaking in M theory on holonomy manifolds. We identify an angle of the background dual to the anomalous current in field theory. This angle is not an isometry of the metric and we therefore develop a theory of ``massive isometry'' to describe fluctuations about such angles. Another example of a massive isometry occurs in the Atiyah-Hitchin metric.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0311088,
title = {The chiral anomaly from M theory},
author = {Umut Gursoy and Sean A. Hartnoll and Ruben Portugues},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0311088},
year = {2009}
}
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