Cobordism conjecture, anomalies, and the String Lamppost Principle

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2021)063zbMath1459.83070arXiv2008.11729WikidataQ123284689 ScholiaQ123284689MaRDI QIDQ2024233

Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa

Publication date: 3 May 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11729

zbMATH Keywords

gauge symmetryextended supersymmetryanomalies in field and string theoriesstring theory and cosmic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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