Flux quantization in dilatonic Taub-NUT dyons

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(19)30081-3zbMATH Open1441.83020arXiv1801.02586OpenAlexW3100491066MaRDI QIDQ2194264FDOQ2194264

Authors: Daniel Flores-Alfonso, Hernando Quevedo 

Publication date: 25 August 2020

Published in: Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Spacetimes that include a boundary at infinity have a non-trivial topology. The homology of the background influences gauge fields living on them and lead to topological charges. We investigate the charges and fluxes of fields over a Taub--NUT background in Einstein--Maxwell dilaton--axion gravity, by using the relative homology and de Rham cohomology. It turns out that the electromagnetic sector is devoid of restrictions from a topological viewpoint. There are, however, flux quanta for the axion and dilaton fields. These results are obtained from the absolute homology of the spacetime boundary. The solutions we probe originate in the four dimensional low energy limit of heterotic string theory. So our results are complemented by the stringy coupling present in the fields. The quantization has a bundle theoretic interpretation as the axion's flux corresponds to the topological index of an underlying 2-bundle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02586

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zbMATH Keywords

topological excitationsEinstein-Maxwell Dilaton-axion modelspacetime homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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