Global gravitational anomaly cancellation for five-branes

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2015.V19.N3.A5zbMATH Open1332.81183arXiv1310.2250MaRDI QIDQ5962830FDOQ5962830

S. Monnier

Publication date: 24 February 2016

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the global mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly of the worldvolume theory of the M5-brane vanishes, when the anomaly inflow from the bulk is taken into account. This result extends to the type IIA and heterotic $E_{8}imes{E}_8$ five-branes. As a by-product, we provide a definition of the chiral fermionic fields for generic non-spin M5-brane worldvolume and determine the coupling between the self-dual field and the M-theory C-field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2250

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) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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