String universality in six dimensions
http://lanl.arXiv.org/abs/0906.0987
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| author | Kumar, Vijay Taylor, Washington |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/766872022-10-01T19:34:09Z String universality in six dimensions Kumar, Vijay Taylor, Washington Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Taylor, Washington http://lanl.arXiv.org/abs/0906.0987 In six dimensions, cancellation of gauge, gravitational, and mixed anomalies strongly constrains the set of quantum field theories, which can be coupled consistently to gravity. We show that for some classes of six-dimensional (6D) supersymmetric gauge theories coupled to gravity, the anomaly cancellation conditions are equivalent to tadpole cancellation and other constraints on the matter content of heterotic/type I compactifications on K3. In these cases, all consistent 6D supergravity theories have a realization in string theory. We find one example that may arise from a novel string compactification, and we identify a new infinite family of models satisfying anomaly factorization. We find, however, that this infinite family of models, as well as other infinite families of models previously identified by Schwarz are pathological. We suggest that it may be feasible to demonstrate that there is a string theoretic realization of all consistent 6D supergravity theories which have Lagrangian descriptions with arbitrary gauge and matter content. We attempt to frame this hypothesis of string universality as a concrete conjecture. United States. Dept. of Energy (DOE, contract #DE-FC02-94ER40818) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant No. PHY05-51164) 2013-01-30T20:54:05Z 2013-01-30T20:54:05Z 2011-04 2009-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1095-0761 1095-0753 arXiv:0906.0987v4 MIT-CTP-4046 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76687 Kumar, Vijay and Washington Taylor. "String universality in six dimensions." Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 15.2 (2011): 325-353. Web. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8566-6706 en_US http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.atmp/1337951926 Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf International Press arXiv |
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| title | String universality in six dimensions |
| title_full | String universality in six dimensions |
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| title_short | String universality in six dimensions |
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