Intersecting D-branes, Chern-kernels and the inflow mechanism

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.08.023zbMATH Open1123.83309arXivhep-th/0406083OpenAlexW2057450685MaRDI QIDQ874294FDOQ874294

Authors: Marco Cariglia, Kurt Lechner 

Publication date: 5 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyse a system of arbitrarily intersecting D-branes in ten-dimensional supergravity. Chiral anomalies are supported on the intersection branes, called I-branes. For non-transversal intersections anomaly cancellation has been realized until now only cohomologically but not locally, due to short-distance singularities. In this paper we present a consistent local cancellation mechanism, writing the delta-like brane currents as differentials of the recently introduced Chern--kernels, J=dK. In particular, for the first time we achieve anomaly cancellation for dual pairs of D-branes. The Chern-kernel approach allows to construct an effective action for the RR-fields which is free from singularities and cancels the quantum anomalies on all D-branes and I-branes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0406083

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zbMATH Keywords

D-branesanomaliessupergravityChern-kernels

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) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

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