Anomaly structure of supergravity and anomaly cancellation
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We display the full anomaly structure of supergravity, including new contributions to the conformal anomaly. Our result has the super-Weyl and Kähler U(1) transformation properties that are required for implementation of the Green-Schwarz mechanism for anomaly cancellation. ∗This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Science, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division of High Energy Physics, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC0205CH11231, in part by the National Science Foundation under grants PHY-0457315 and PHY99-07949.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009