1993/10/06 by Julie Blum, Julie D. Blum, Jeffrey A. Harvey · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-lat #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90580-0
published as Nucl.Phys.B416:119-136,1994 · 23 pp (harvmac l)
arxiv created 1993/10/06 · openalex publication_date 1994/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Topological defects constructed out of scalar fields and possessing chiral fermion zero modes are known to exhibit an anomaly inflow mechanism which cancels the anomaly in the effective theory of the zero modes through an inflow of current from the space in which the defect is embedded. We investigate the analog of this mechanism for defects constructed out of gauge fields in higher dimensions. In particular we analyze this mechanism for string (one-brane) defects in six dimensions and for fivebranes in ten dimensions.