Chern-kernels and anomaly cancellation in M-theory

DOI10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.09.002zbMath1058.81662arXivhep-th/0302108OpenAlexW1991925190MaRDI QIDQ1411199

Kurt Lechner, Pieralberto A. Marchetti

Publication date: 26 October 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0302108

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac quantization conditionanomaly-free effective actionmagnetic-equation-solution universality class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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