Self-dual strings in six dimensions: anomalies, the ADE-classification, and the world-sheet WZW-model

DOI10.1007/S00220-005-1324-7zbMATH Open1079.81053arXivhep-th/0405056OpenAlexW3101554353MaRDI QIDQ2575359FDOQ2575359

Måns Henningson

Publication date: 9 December 2005

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

Abstract: We consider the (2, 0) supersymmetric theory of tensor multiplets and self-dual strings in six space-time dimensions. Space-time diffeomorphisms that leave the string world-sheet invariant appear as gauge transformations on the normal bundle of the world-sheet. The naive invariance of the model under such transformations is however explicitly broken by anomalies: The electromagnetic coupling of the string to the two-form gauge field of the tensor multiplet suffers from a classical anomaly, and there is also a one-loop quantum anomaly from the chiral fermions on the string world-sheet. Both of these contributions are proportional to the Euler class of the normal bundle of the string world-sheet, and consistency of the model requires that they cancel. This imposes strong constraints on possible models, which are found to obey an ADE-classification. We then consider the decoupled world-sheet theory that describes low-energy fluctuations (compared to the scale set by the string tension) around a configuration with a static, straight string. The anomaly structure determines this to be a supersymmetric version of the level one Wess-Zumino-Witten model based on the group (R x SU(2))/Z_2 .

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405056

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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) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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