Anomalies, Ambiguities and Superstrings
Anomalies, Ambiguities and Superstrings
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DOI:
10.1016/0370-2693(86)90544-7
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发表时间:
1986-01
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
C. Hull
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作者:
C. Hull
It is shown that anomalies only change trivially if a covariant term is added to the gauge connection. As a result, for the superstring, the anomalies can be cancelled if the anti-symmetric tensor field strength H is modified by the Chern-Simons form of any spin-connection, possibly with torsion. The low-energy effective field theory is, then, not uniquely determined by requiring anomaly cancellation and supersymmetry. Implications for string compactifications are considered.