Published June 10, 2004
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Journal article
Intersecting M2- and M5-branes
Creators
Description
If an M2-brane intersects an M5-brane the canonical Wess-Zumino action is plagued by a Dirac-anomaly, i.e., a non-integer change of the action under a change of Dirac-brane. We show that this anomaly can be eliminated at the expense of a gravitational anomaly supported on the intersection manifold. Eventually we check that the last one is cancelled by the anomaly produced by the fermions present. This provides a quantum consistency check of these intersecting configurations
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.03.056;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0402078v3;
- PII
- S0370269304004885;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 589
- Journal Issue
- 3-4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 147-154
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37114267
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DIRAC OPERATORS; FERMIONS; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; STRING MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM OPERATORS; QUARK MODEL
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.