Topological actions via gauge variations of higher structures
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-04-02 v2 Mathematical Physics
Algebraic Topology
math.MP
Abstract
In this note we provide a new perspective on the topological parts of several action functionals in string and M-theory. We show that rationally these can be viewed as large gauge transformations corresponding to variations of higher structures, such as String, Fivebrane, and Ninebrane structures.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.05349,
title = {Topological actions via gauge variations of higher structures},
author = {Hisham Sati and Matthew Wheeler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05349},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
References and material on the heterotic case added, published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1612.06983