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Green–Schwarz mechanism

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s TV version, in the second episode, "The String's the Thing", section "Wrestling with String Theory", Green describes finding 496 on each side of the equals sign during a stormy night filled with lightning, and fondly recalls joking that "the gods are trying to prevent us from completing this
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Anomalies in quantum theory arise from one-loop diagrams, with a chiral fermion in the loop and gauge fields,
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field. They realized that one of the necessary conditions for a superstring theory to make sense is that the
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and under general coordinate transformations is appropriately specified, then the Green–Schwarz term
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Frampton, P.; Kephart, T. (1983). "Explicit Evaluation of Anomalies in Higher Dimensions".
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calculation". Green soon entitled some of his subsequent lectures "
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cancels because of an extra "classical" contribution from a
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Green and Schwarz realized that one can add a so-called
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in which the anomaly cancellation is more transparent.
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Index

String theory

String
Cosmic string
Brane
D-brane
Bosonic
Superstring
Type I
Type II
Heterotic
S-duality
T-duality
U-duality
M-theory
F-theory
AdS/CFT correspondence
Phenomenology
Cosmology
Landscape
Geometric Langlands correspondence
Mirror symmetry
Monstrous moonshine
Vertex algebra
K-theory
Theory of everything
Conformal field theory
Quantum gravity
Supersymmetry
Supergravity

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