Pseudo-anomalous U(1) symmetry in the strong coupling limit of the heterotic string

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We discuss, in the context of the strongly coupled E₈ × E₈ heterotic string proposed by Horava and Witten, the appearance of anomalous U(1)ₓ symmetries of a nonperturbative origin, related to the presence, after compactification, of five-branes in the five-dimensional bulk of the theory. We compute the gauge anomalies and the induced Fayet-Iliopoulos terms on each boundary, which we find to be lower than the universal one induced in the weakly coupled case.