Published January 6, 2003 | Version v1
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Bulk and brane anomalies in six dimensions

Description

We study anomalies of six-dimensional gauge theories compactified on orbifolds. In addition to the known bulk anomalies, brane anomalies appear on orbifold fixpoints in the case of chiral boundary conditions. At a fixpoint, where the bulk gauge group G is broken to a subgroup H, the non-Abelian G-anomaly in the bulk reduces to a H-anomaly which depends in a simple manner on the chiral boundary conditions. We illustrate this mechanism by means of a SO(10) GUT model

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PII
S0550321302009768;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
648
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 231-253
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.