Anomaly cancellation and modularity

DOI10.1142/9789814578097_0008MaRDI QIDQ2928488zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fei Han, Weiping Zhang, Kefeng Liu

Publication date 7 November 2014

Published in Frontiers in Differential Geometry, Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0718

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: It has been shown that the Alvarez-Gaum$mathrmacutee$-Witten miraculous anomaly cancellation formula in type IIB superstring theory and its various generalizations can be derived from modularity of certain characteristic forms. In this paper, we show that the Green-Schwarz formula and the Schwarz-Witten formula in type I superstring theory can also be derived from the modularity of those characteristic forms and thus unify the Alvarez-Gaum$mathrmacutee$-Witten formula, the Green-Schwarz formula as well as the Schwarz-Witten formula in the same framework. Various generalizations of these remarkable formulas are also established.

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