Twisted Sectors and Chern-Simons Terms in M-Theory Orbifolds

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2000-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0011031v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys.A18:2995-3014,2003

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

21 pages, LaTeX

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217751X03015738

It is shown that the twisted sector spectrum, as well as the associated Chern-Simons interactions, can be determined on M-theory orbifold fixed planes that do not admit gravitational anomalies. This is demonstrated for the seven-planes arising within the context of an explicit $R^6 \times S^1/Z_2 \times T^4/Z_2$ orbifold, although the results are completely general. Local anomaly cancellation in this context is shown to require fractional anomaly data that can only arise from a twisted sector on the seven-planes, thus determining the twisted spectrum up to a small ambiguity. These results open the door to the construction of arbitrary M-theory orbifolds, including those containing fixed four-planes which are of phenomenological interest.

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