RFCMP2025-A

Anomaly cancellation in superstring theory: a review

Not scheduled

1h 30m

Room 233, Faculty of Science Building 1 (The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus)

Description

Anomalies in superstring theories are known to cancel via subtle mechanisms. We begin with the standard perturbative anomaly cancellation, which works uniformly across all theories.
We then move on to the discussion of the global anomaly cancellation, whose mechanism varies depending on the type of superstring theories in question.