Large Gauge Transformations in M-theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We cast M-brane interactions including intersecting membranes and five-branes in manifestly gauge invariant form using an arrangement of higher dimensional Dirac surfaces. We show that the noncommutative gauge symmetry present in the doubled M-theory formalism involving dual 3-form and 6-form gauge fields is preserved in a form quantised over the integers. The proper context for discussing large noncommutative gauge transformations is relative cohomology, in which the 3-form transformation parameters become exact when restricted to the five-brane worldvolume. We show how this structure yields the lattice of M-theory charges and gives rise to the conjectured 7D Hopf-Wess-Zumino term.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0212081,
title = {Large Gauge Transformations in M-theory},
author = {Jussi Kalkkinen and K. S. Stelle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0212081},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
45 pages, 9 figures, LaTeX