Witten anomaly in 4d heterotic compactificaitons with N = 2 supersymmetry

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2020)180MaRDI QIDQ2215419zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuichi Enoki, Yotaro Sato, T. Watari

Publication date 11 December 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01069

zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in field and string theoriesstring dualitysuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We showed that there is no SU(2) Witten anomaly in a large class of 4d N = 2 supersymmetric Heterotic string compactifications. The consistency conditions we consider are the modularity of the new supersymmetric index, the integrality of BPS indices, and the discrete Peccei-Quinn shift symmetries. We also found an example where these conditions are not sufficient to show that the theory is anomaly free. This suggests that there are more conditions in the worldsheet SCFT essential for consistent string compactifications.

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