I-Brane Inflow and Anomalous Couplings on D-Branes
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We show that the anomalous couplings of D-brane gauge and gravitational fields to Ramond-Ramond tensor potentials can be deduced by a simple anomaly inflow argument applied to intersecting D-branes and use this to determine the eight-form gravitational
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