Dirac branes, characteristic currents and anomaly cancellations in 5-branes

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(01)01542-0zbMath1006.81523arXivhep-th/0103161MaRDI QIDQ1602355

Kurt Lechner, Pieralberto A. Marchetti

Publication date: 19 June 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B. Proceedings Supplements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0103161

zbMATH Keywords

geometric regularization; Dirac monopole strings; PST formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

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