Brane Wess-Zumino terms from AKSZ and exceptional generalised geometry as an L_ -algebroid

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2019.V23.N5.A1MaRDI QIDQ2665899zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alex S. Arvanitakis

Publication date 19 November 2021

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07303

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Flows related to symplectic and contact structures (53E50) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We reinterpret the generalised Lie derivative of M-theory $E_6$ generalised geometry as hamiltonian flow on a graded symplectic supermanifold. The hamiltonian acts as the nilpotent derivative of the tensor hierarchy of exceptional field theory. This construction is an M-theory analogue of the Courant algebroid and reveals the $L_{i}nfty$-algebra underlying the tensor hierarchy. The AKSZ construction identifies that same hamiltonian with the lagrangian of a 7-dimensional generalisation of Chern-Simons theory that reduces to the M5-brane Wess-Zumino term on 5-brane boundaries. The exercise repeats for the type IIB $E_5$ generalised geometry and we discuss the relation to the D3-brane.

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