Global anomalies, string theory and spacetime topology

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/5/9/003zbMath0652.53061OpenAlexW2025509746MaRDI QIDQ3797849

Timothy P. Killingback

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/5/9/003

zbMATH Keywords

superstring theoriesspin bordism groupspin bundleAtiyah-Patodi-Singer theoremglobal anomaly

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Other types of cobordism (57R90)

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