FIVEBRANE STRUCTURES

DOI10.1142/S0129055X09003840zbMath1202.81181arXiv0805.0564MaRDI QIDQ3402047

Urs Schreiber, Hisham Sati, James D. Stasheff

Publication date: 2 February 2010

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0564

zbMATH Keywords

anomaly; superstring theory; string theory; obstruction theory; fivebrane; generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles

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

81-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory

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

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