Gravitational anomalies from the action for self-dual antisymmetric tensor fields in 4k+2 dimensions
- 14 August 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 63 (7) , 728-730
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.63.728
Abstract
We show that recent actions for a single self-dual antisymmetric tensor field in 4k+2 dimensions lead to the same one-loop gravitational anomalies as obtained a few years ago by Alvarez-Gaumé and Witten, who conjectured the necessary Feynman rules in the absence of an action principle.Keywords
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