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hep-th2003
The chiral anomaly from M theory
Umut Gursoy, Sean A. Hartnoll, Ruben Portugues
We argue that the chiral anomaly of $\Ncal = 1$ super Yang-Mills theory admits a dual description as spontaneous symmetry breaking in M theory on holonomy manifolds. We ident…
hep-th2003
Compactification, topology change and surgery theory
Sean A. Hartnoll
We study the process of compactification as a topology change. It is shown how the mediating spacetime topology, or cobordism, may be simplified through surgery. Within the causal…