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Large Gauge Transformations in M-theory

高能物理 - 理论 2009-11-07 v1

摘要

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.

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@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}
}

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45 pages, 9 figures, LaTeX