Structure of anomalies of 4d SCFTs from M5-branes, and anomaly inflow

Bah, Ibrahima; Nardoni, Emily

doi:10.1007/jhep03(2019)024

Structure of anomalies of 4d SCFTs from M5-branes, and anomaly inflow

Journal Article · Tue Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2019)024· OSTI ID:1611231

Bah, Ibrahima ^[1]; Nardoni, Emily ^[2]

Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States); DOE/OSTI
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)

We study the ’t Hooft anomalies of four-dimensional superconformal field theories that arise from M5-branes wrapped on a punctured Riemann surface. In general there are two independent contributions to the anomalies. There is a bulk term obtained by integrating the anomaly polynomial of the world-volume theory on the M5-branes over the Riemann surface; this contribution knows about the punctures only through its dependence on the Euler characteristic of the surface. The second set of contributions comes from local data at the punctures; these terms are independent from the bulk data of the surface. Using anomaly inflow in M-theory, we describe the general structure of the anomalies for cases when the four-dimensional theories preserve N=2 supersymmetry. We additionally discuss the anomalies corresponding to (p, q) punctures in N=1 theories.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009919

OSTI ID:: 1611231

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 2019; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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