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January 1, 1999Asian Journal of Mathematics528 citationsOpen Access

Anomalies in string theory with D-branes

DFDaniel S. FreedEWEdward Witten

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This problem exemplifies the difference between the topological anomaly and the geometric anomaly: the topological isomorphism class of this line bundle is determined by the third Stiefel-Whitney class W3(i/), and this may vanish even if the holonomy is nontrivial.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a202cf5ca1e0a8823d8d2cchttps://doi.org/10.4310/ajm.1999.v3.n4.a6
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