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We compute the global gauge and gravitational anomalies of the A-type (2,0) superconformal quantum field theories in six dimensions, and conjecture a formula valid for the D- and E-type theories. We show that the anomaly contains terms that do not contribute to the local anomaly but that are crucial for the consistency of the global anomaly. A side result is an intuitive picture for the appearance of Hopf-Wess-Zumino terms on the Coulomb branch of the (2,0) theories.
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Monnier, S. The global anomalies of (2,0) superconformal field theories in six dimensions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 88 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2014)088
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