World-volume and target-space anomalies in the D=10 super-fivebrane sigma model

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00312-4zbMATH Open0925.81338arXivhep-th/9603094OpenAlexW1989980945MaRDI QIDQ1920752FDOQ1920752

Kurt Lechner, Mario Tonin

Publication date: 13 August 1996

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

Abstract: The fields of the conjectured ``heterotic" super--fivebrane sigma--model in ten dimensions are made out of a well known gravitational sector, the $X$ and the $vartheta$, and of a still unknown heterotic sector which should be coupled to the Yang--Mills fields. We compute the one--loop $d=6$ worldvolume and $D=10$ target space Lorentz--anomalies which arise from the gravitational sector of the heterotic super--fivebrane sigma--model, using a method which we developed previously for the Green--Schwarz heterotic superstring. These anomalies turn out to carry an overall coefficient which is $1/2$ of that required by the string/fivebrane duality conjecture. As a consequence the worldvolume anomaly vanishes if the heterotic fields consist of 16 (rather than 32) complex Weyl fermions on the worldvolume. This implies that the string/fivebrane duality conjecture can not be based on a ``heterotic" super--fivebrane sigma--model with only fermions in the heterotic sector. Possible implications of this result are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603094

zbMATH Keywords

duality conjecture10D target space Lorentz anomaliescomplex Weyl fermionsheterotic fieldskappa invariance

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)

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• FIVEBRANE STRUCTURES
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