2019/03/31 by Samuel Monnier · 19 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Anomaly (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Field (mathematics) #Mixed anomaly #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Point (geometry) #Sketch #String (physics) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/prop.201910012
published in Fortschritte der Physik 67(8-9) (Wiley) · 14 pages, Contribution to Proceedings of LMS/EPSRC Durham Symposium Higher Structures in M-Theory, August 2018 v2: References added
openalex created_date 2019/03/22 · openalex publication_date 2019/05/06 · arxiv created 2019/07/21 · arxiv updated 2019/10/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract We review the concept of anomaly field theory, namely the fact that the anomalies of a d ‐dimensional field theory can be encoded in a ‐dimensional field theory functor. We give numerous examples of anomaly field theories, explain how classical facts about anomalies are recovered from the anomaly field theory, and review recent work on global anomaly cancellation in 6d supergravity where this concept was instrumental. We also sketch the status of global anomaly cancellation checks in string theory. This paper is based on a talk given at the Durham Symposium ‘Higher Structures in M‐theory’ in August 2018.