Twisted topological structures related to M-branes. II: Twisted Wu and Wu^c structures

DOI10.1142/S0219887812500569MaRDI QIDQ3144210zbMATHFDO

Authors Hisham Sati

Publication date 7 December 2012

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4461

zbMATH Keywords

M-theoryanomaliesStiefel-Whitney classesstring structureM-branesWu classesspin structure and generalizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) Obstruction theory in algebraic topology (55S35)

Abstract: Studying the topological aspects of M-branes in M-theory leads to various structures related to Wu classes. First we interpret Wu classes themselves as twisted classes and then define twisted notions of Wu structures. These generalize many known structures, including Pin^- structures, twisted Spin structures in the sense of Distler-Freed-Moore, Wu-twisted differential cocycles appearing in the work of Belov-Moore, as well as ones introduced by the author, such as twisted Membrane and twisted String^c structures. In addition, we introduce Wu^c structures, which generalize Pin^c structures, as well as their twisted versions. We show how these structures generalize and encode the usual structures defined via Stiefel-Whitney classes.

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