Anomaly Inflow for Gauge Defects

Preprint

6 October 1993

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9310035

Abstract

Topological defects constructed out of scalar fields and possessing chiral fermion zero modes are known to exhibit an anomaly inflow mechanism which cancels the anomaly in the effective theory of the zero modes through an inflow of current from the space in which the defect is embedded. We investigate the analog of this mechanism for defects constructed out of gauge fields in higher dimensions. In particular we analyze this mechanism for string (one-brane) defects in six dimensions and for fivebranes in ten dimensions.}

Keywords

DEFECTS CONSTRUCTED
TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS
ANOMALY INFLOW
GAUGE DEFECTS
SCALAR FIELDS
ZERO MODES
EMBEDDED
CHIRAL

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Version 1, 1993-10-06, ArXiv
Published version: Nuclear Physics B, 416 (1), 119.

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