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April 6, 2026Nuclear Physics B0 citationsOpen Access

Chern-Simons couplings, modular duality, and anomaly cancellation in abelian F-theory

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MFMir FaizalASArshid Shabir

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F-theory compactifications with a nontrivial Mordell-Weil group realize abelian gauge symmetry through rational sections, but their consistency is ultimately a statement about the quantum effective action. We show that compactification on a circle makes this statement concrete: the quantized, parity-odd Chern-Simons couplings of the resulting three-dimensional theory provide a one-loop exact and scheme-independent encoding of all local four-dimensional abelian anomalies, including the mixed gauge-gravitational terms, together with their Green-Schwarz cancellation. We determine these Chern-Simons couplings in two logically independent ways, first from flux-induced terms in the M-theory dual description, and second from an explicit one-loop integration over the complete massive spectrum, including Kaluza-Klein towers and Coulomb-branch states. The agreement fixes all normalizations and clarifies how large gauge transformations reorganize the spectrum. We then show compatibility with type IIB modular duality once the known ten-dimensional duality counterterm is included, and we present a fully explicit rank-two example over projective three-space.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1c82c22cc291e7bf2fe38fhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2026.117439
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