The global gravitational anomaly of the self-dual field theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-013-1845-4zbMATH Open1300.81072arXiv1110.4639OpenAlexW3099061741MaRDI QIDQ393699FDOQ393699

Authors: S. Monnier 

Publication date: 24 January 2014

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

Abstract: We derive a formula for the global gravitational anomaly of the self-dual field theory on an arbitrary compact oriented Riemannian manifold. Along the way, we uncover interesting links between the theory of determinant line bundles of Dirac operators, Siegel theta functions and a functor constructed by Hopkins and Singer. We apply our result to type IIB supergravity and show that in the naive approximation where the Ramond-Ramond fields are treated as differential cohomology classes, the global gravitational anomaly vanishes on all 10-dimensional spin manifolds. We sketch a few other important physical applications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4639

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zbMATH Keywords

global gravitational anomalyself-dual field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Supergravity (83E50) Fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R99)

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