Monnier, Samuel (2014). The global anomalies of (2,0) superconformal field theories in six dimensions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(9):88.
We compute the global gauge and gravitational anomalies of the A-type (2,0) superconformal quantum field theories in six dimensions, and conjecture a formula valid for the D- and E-type theories. We show that the anomaly contains terms that do not contribute to the local anomaly but that are crucial for the consistency of the global anomaly. A side result is an intuitive picture for the appearance of Hopf-Wess-Zumino terms on the Coulomb branch of the (2,0) theories.
We compute the global gauge and gravitational anomalies of the A-type (2,0) superconformal quantum field theories in six dimensions, and conjecture a formula valid for the D- and E-type theories. We show that the anomaly contains terms that do not contribute to the local anomaly but that are crucial for the consistency of the global anomaly. A side result is an intuitive picture for the appearance of Hopf-Wess-Zumino terms on the Coulomb branch of the (2,0) theories.
| Item Type: | Journal Article, refereed, original work |
|---|---|
| Communities & Collections: | 07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Mathematics |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 510 Mathematics |
| Scopus Subject Areas: | Physical Sciences > Nuclear and High Energy Physics |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | September 2014 |
| Deposited On: | 16 Jan 2015 13:32 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2023 02:38 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
| OA Status: | Gold |
| Publisher DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2014)088 |
| Other Identification Number: | ArXiv ePrint: 1406.4540 |
Monnier, Samuel