Anomaly inflow and p-form gauge theories

DOI10.1007/S00220-022-04333-WzbMATH Open1487.81131arXiv2003.11550OpenAlexW4214812005MaRDI QIDQ2118804FDOQ2118804

Authors: Chang-Tse Hsieh, Yuji Tachikawa, Kazuya Yonekura 

Publication date: 23 March 2022

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Chiral and non-chiral $p$-form gauge fields have gravitational anomalies and anomalies of Green-Schwarz type. This means that they are most naturally realized as the boundary modes of bulk topological phases in one higher dimensions. We give a systematic description of the total bulk-boundary system which is analogous to the realization of a chiral fermion on the boundary of a massive fermion. The anomaly of the boundary theory is given by the partition function of the bulk theory, which we explicitly compute in terms of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer $eta$-invariant. We use our formalism to determine the $mathrmSL(2,mathbbZ)$ anomaly of the 4d Maxwell theory. We also apply it to study the worldvolume theories of a single D-brane and an M5-brane in the presence of orientifolds, orbifolds, and S-folds in string, M, and F theories. In an appendix we also describe a simple class of non-unitary invertible topological theories whose partition function is not a bordism invariant, illustrating the necessity of the unitarity condition in the cobordism classification of the invertible phases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11550

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70)

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