The cancellation of world-sheet anomalies in the D=10 Green-Schwarz heterotic string sigma model

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00311-2zbMATH Open0925.81337arXivhep-th/9603093OpenAlexW2092418993MaRDI QIDQ1920751FDOQ1920751

Kurt Lechner, Mario Tonin

Publication date: 13 August 1996

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

Abstract: We determine the two--dimensional Weyl, Lorentz and $kappa$--anomalies in the $D=10$ Green--Schwarz heterotic string sigma--model, in an $SO(1,9)$-Lorentz covariant background gauge, and prove their cancellation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603093

zbMATH Keywords

cancellationLorentz covariance2D Lorentz anomaly2D Weyl anomaly

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

Cites Work

• \(\kappa\)-anomalies and space-time supersymmetry in the Green-Schwarz heterotic superstring.
• World-volume and target-space anomalies in the \(D=10\) super-fivebrane sigma model

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• Generalized quark-antiquark potential at weak and strong coupling
• QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS OF ROTATING STRINGS IN AdS₅ × S⁵
• Scattering on the supermembrane
• World-volume and target-space anomalies in the \(D=10\) super-fivebrane sigma model

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