Wrapped M-branes and three-dimensional topologies

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00789-XMaRDI QIDQ1380169zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christof Schmidhuber

Publication date 26 February 1998

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9707225

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionDehn surgerymembranesSeifert manifolds\(M\)-theorytopology fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: The three-dimensional topologies of the membrane of M-theory can be constructed by performing Dehn surgery along knot lines. We investigate membranes wrapped around a circle and the correponding subset of topologies (Seifert manifolds). The knot lines are interpreted as magnetic flux tubes in an XY model coupled to Maxwell theory. In this model the eleventh dimension of M-theory gets ``eaten by the world-brane metric. There is argued to be a second-order phase transition at a critical value of the string coupling constant. The topology fluctuations that correspond to the knot lines are irrelevant in one phase while they condense in the other phase.

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