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ANOMALY STRUCTURE OF SUPERGRAVITY AND ANOMALY CANCELLATION

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
We display the full anomaly structure of supergravity, including new D-term contributions to the conformal anomaly. This expression has the super-Weyl and chiral U(1){sub K} transformation properties that are required for implementation of the Green-Schwarz mechanism for anomaly cancellation. We outline the procedure for full anomaly cancellation. Our results have implications for effective supergravity theories from the weakly coupled heterotic string theory.
Research Organization:
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
Physics Division
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
962710
Report Number(s):
LBNL-2032E
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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