The global anomalies of (2,0) superconformal field theories in six dimensions
Samuel Monnier
TL;DR
This paper calculates the global gauge and gravitational anomalies of six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theories, providing a conjectured formula for D- and E-type theories and insights into anomaly-related terms and Coulomb branch phenomena.
Contribution
It presents the first comprehensive computation of global anomalies for (2,0) theories and proposes a conjecture extending to D- and E-type classifications.
Findings
Derived anomaly formulas for A-type (2,0) theories
Conjectured anomaly expressions for D- and E-type theories
Identified the role of Hopf-Wess-Zumino terms on the Coulomb branch
Abstract
We compute the global gauge and gravitational anomalies of the A-type (2,0) superconformal quantum field theories in six dimensions, and conjecture a formula valid for the D- and E-type theories. We show that the anomaly contains terms that do not contribute to the local anomaly but that are crucial for the consistency of the global anomaly. A side result is an intuitive picture for the appearance of Hopf-Wess-Zumino terms on the Coulomb branch of the (2,0) theories.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.