Cohomology and heterotic world-sheet anomalies
- 15 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 36 (4) , 1119-1126
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.36.1119
Abstract
Topological methods are applied to calculating world-sheet anomalies in (p,q) supersymmetry. Specifically, we construct the (1,0) gauge anomaly using cohomology and the descent equations in (1,0) superspace. The coefficient of the anomaly is calculated with supergraph techniques.Keywords
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