TWISTED TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURES RELATED TO M-BRANES II: TWISTED Wu ANDWucSTRUCTURES

DOI10.1142/S0219887812500569zbMath1264.53054arXiv1109.4461MaRDI QIDQ3144210

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-theory; Stiefel-Whitney classes; anomalies; string structure; M-branes; Wu classes; spin structure and generalizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

55S35: Obstruction theory in algebraic topology

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

81T50: Anomalies in quantum field theory

57R20: Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

53C27: Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry

55R65: Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology

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