"Anomaly Cancellation: a Retrospective From a Modern Perspective"

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2001: A Spacetime Odyssey 00:00:00
Title 00:00:25
A Few References 00:01:24
Introduction 00:02:45
Two Categories 00:04:52
Even Dimensions 00:07:04
Type II and Heterotic 00:09:23
World-sheet 00:11:31
4n+2 vs 4n 00:12:52
Yang-Mills fields 00:17:08
Gravity 00:19:06
Characteristic Classes 00:20:30
Yang-Mills 00:22:02
Descent Equations 00:23:48
Weyl Fermion 00:26:26
Weyl Gravities 00:29:53
Type IIB 00:31:55
Type I 00:34:05
Gauge Group 00:36:53
the symbol tr 00:38:40
No Choice 00:41:02
Constant Term 00:43:13
Anomaly Contributions 00:45:29
Class Y4 00:47:46
C2 transforms 00:49:30
Techniques 00:51:24