Non-abelian tensor-multiplet anomalies

1998/08/11 by J. A. Harvey, Jeffrey A Harvey, Ruben Minasian +3 · 3 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Anomaly (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Entropy (arrow of time) #Gauged supergravity #Gravitational anomaly #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Mixed anomaly #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Supergravity #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/1998/09/004

published as JHEP9809:004,1998 · 14 pages, harvmac (b)

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Abstract

We use the anomaly cancellation of the M-theory fivebrane to derive the R-symmetry anomalies of the A_N (0,2) tensor-multiplet theories. This result leads to a simple derivation of black hole entropy in d=4, N=2 compactifications of M-theory. We also show how the formalism of normal bundle anomaly cancellation clarifies the Kaluza-Klein origin of Chern-Simons terms in gauged supergravity theories. The results imply the existence of interesting 1/N corrections in the AdS/CFT correspondence.

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