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arxiv: 0906.3503 · v2 · submitted 2009-06-18 · ✦ hep-th

Anomaly Structure of Supergravity and Anomaly Cancellation

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords anomalycancellationsupergravityfullstructurechiralconformalcontributions
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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)_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.

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