Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity on a Manifold with Boundary

Details Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity on a Manifold with Boundary Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity on a Manifold with Boundary

1996-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603142v1

Nucl.Phys.B475:94-114,1996

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

28 pages, no figures; harvmac

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(96)00308-2

In this paper, we present a systematic analysis of eleven-dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary, which is believed to be relevant to the strong coupling limit of the $E_8\times E_8$ heterotic string. Gauge and gravitational anomalies enter at a very early stage, and require a refinement of the standard Green-Schwarz mechanism for their cancellation. This uniquely determines the gauge group to be a copy of $E_8$ for each boundary component, fixes the gauge coupling constant in terms of the gravitational constant, and leads to several striking new tests of the hypothesis that there is a consistent quantum $M$-theory with eleven-dimensional supergravity as its low energy limit.

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