Abstract

The equations of motion of anomaly-free supergravity are shown to fulfil (to all orders in α′) a differential condition corresponding to the one relating the Weyl anomaly coefficients for a nonlinear sigma model representing a (heterotic) string propagating in a nontrivial background. This supports the possibility that anomaly-free supergravity could provide the complete massless effective theory for the heterotic string.

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