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Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity on a Manifold with Boundary

arXiv:hep-th/9603142 · doi:10.1016/0550-3213(96)00308-2

Abstract

In this paper, we present a systematic analysis of eleven-dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary, which is believed to be relevant to the strong coupling limit of the heterotic string. Gauge and gravitational anomalies enter at a very early stage, and require a refinement of the standard Green-Schwarz mechanism for their cancellation. This uniquely determines the gauge group to be a copy of for each boundary component, fixes the gauge coupling constant in terms of the gravitational constant, and leads to several striking new tests of the hypothesis that there is a consistent quantum -theory with eleven-dimensional supergravity as its low energy limit.

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