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Duality symmetry and the form fields of M-theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v4

Abstract

In previous work we derived the topological terms in the M-theory action in terms of certain characters that we defined. In this paper, we propose the extention of these characters to include the dual fields. The unified treatment of the M-theory four-form field strength and its dual leads to several observations. In particular we elaborate on the possibility of a twisted cohomology theory with a twist given by degrees greater than three.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0509046,
  title  = {Duality symmetry and the form fields of M-theory},
  author = {Hisham Sati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0509046},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, modified material on the differential