Geometric and topological structures related to M-branes II: Twisted String and String^c structures
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-10-18 v2 Algebraic Topology
Differential Geometry
Abstract
The actions, anomalies, and quantization conditions allow the M2-brane and the M5-brane to support, in a natural way, structures beyond Spin on their worldvolumes. The main examples are twisted String structures. This also extends to twisted String^c structures, which we introduce and relate to twisted String structures. The relation of the C-field to Chern-Simons theory suggests the use of the String cobordism category to describe the M2-brane.
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@article{arxiv.1007.5419,
title = {Geometric and topological structures related to M-branes II: Twisted String and String^c structures},
author = {Hisham Sati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.5419},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
13 pages, minor corrections, published version