Anomaly inflow and RR anomalous couplings

Abstract

We review the anomaly inflow mechanism on D-branes and O-planes. In particular, we compute the one-loop world-volume anomalies and derive the RR anomalous couplings required for their cancellation.

9 pages, LaTex, Talk given by C.A. Scrucca at TMR meeting "Quantum aspects of gauge theories, supersymmetry and unification", ENS, Paris, 1-7 September 1999