Anomalous anomalies in the Carlip-Kallosh quantization of the Green-Schwarz superstring

The cancellation of conformal and gravitational anomalies in the free Green-Schwarz superstring in the semi-covariant formulation of Carlip and Kallosh is re-examined, and it is found to take place between non-local and local but non-polynomial parts of the effective action. Anomalously, the total e...

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Published inPhysics letters. B Vol. 236; no. 3; pp. 255 - 261
Main Authors Kraemmer, Ulrike, Rebhan, Anton
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 22.02.1990
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Exact sciences and technology
General relativity and gravitation
Physics
Quantum gravity
Action
Gravitation
Superstring
Effective action
Heat kernel
Lorentz invariance
Gravitational anomaly
Quantum theory
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Summary:The cancellation of conformal and gravitational anomalies in the free Green-Schwarz superstring in the semi-covariant formulation of Carlip and Kallosh is re-examined, and it is found to take place between non-local and local but non-polynomial parts of the effective action. Anomalously, the total effective action does not vanish itself, but contains terms which violate the ten-dimensional Lorentz invariance of the model.
ISSN:0370-2693
1873-2445
DOI:10.1016/0370-2693(90)90978-F