From the signature theorem to anomaly cancellation

Cancellation theorem

Anomaly structure of supergravity and anomaly cancellation

We display the full anomaly structure of supergravity, including new contributions to the conformal anomaly. Our result has the super-Weyl and Kähler U(1) transformation properties that are required for implementation of the Green-Schwarz mechanism for anomaly cancellation. ∗This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Science, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division o...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Anomaly cancellation in K3 orientifolds

We study in detail the pattern of anomaly cancellation in D = 6 Type IIB ZN orientifolds, occurring through a generalized Green-Schwarz mechanism involving several RR antisymmetric tensors and scalars fields. The starting point is a direct string theory computation of the inflow of anomaly arising from magnetic interaction of D-branes, O-planes and fixed-points, which are encoded in topological...

Anomaly cancellation in M - theory

We show the complete cancellation of gauge and gravitational anomalies in the Mtheory of Horava and Witten using their boundary contribution, and a term coming from the existence of two and five-branes. A factor of three discrepancy noted in an earlier work is resolved. We end with a comment on flux quantization. e-mail: [email protected] In the M-theory of Horava and Witten [1] sever...