The Self-Dual String and Anomalies in the M5-brane

David S. Berman; Jeffrey A. Harvey

doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/015

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The Self-Dual String and Anomalies in the M5-brane

arXiv:hep-th/0408198 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/015

Abstract

We study the anomalies of a charge $Q_{2}$ self-dual string solution in the Coulomb branch of $Q_{5}$ M5-branes. Cancellation of these anomalies allows us to determine the anomaly of the zero-modes on the self-dual string and their scaling with $Q_{2}$ and $Q_{5}$ . The dimensional reduction of the five-brane anomalous couplings then lead to certain anomalous couplings for D-branes.

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