Published June 10, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Intersecting M2- and M5-branes

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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

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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 (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.