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Is Weyl transformation part of diffeomorphism? Does a gravitational anomaly capture also the anomaly due to Weyl transformation? [duplicate]
Weyl transformation is a local rescaling of the metric tensor
$$
g_{ab}\rightarrow e^{-2\omega(x)}g_{ab}
$$
Diffeomorphism maps to a theory under arbitrary differentiable coordinate transformations
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Holomorphic anomaly at genus 1
Partition function on torus can be defined using a generalized Witten like index as given below:
$$F_1=\int_\mathbb{T}\frac{d^2\tau}{\tau_2} Tr(-1)^F F_LF_R \;q^{L_0} \bar{q}^{\bar{L_0}},$$
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How to visualize a sphere bundle?
In the paper ``Gravitational Anomaly Cancellation for M Theory Fivebranes", the authors consider removing a tubular region of radius $\epsilon$ around the M5 brane (in order to make sense of the three ...
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