Duality and cohomology in M-theory with boundary

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.11.012zbMATH Open1447.81175arXiv1012.4495OpenAlexW2017656972WikidataQ125873772 ScholiaQ125873772MaRDI QIDQ413701FDOQ413701

Authors: Hisham Sati 

Publication date: 7 May 2012

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider geometric and analytical aspects of M-theory on a manifold with boundary Y. The partition function of the C-field requires summing over harmonic forms. When Y is closed Hodge theory gives a unique harmonic form in each de Rham cohomology class, while in the presence of a boundary the Hodge-Morrey-Friedrichs decomposition should be used. This leads us to study the boundary conditions for the C-field. The dynamics and the presence of the dual to the C-field gives rise to a mixing of boundary conditions with one being Dirichlet and the other being Neumann. We describe the mixing between the corresponding absolute and relative cohomology classes via Poincar'e duality angles, which we also illustrate for the M5-brane as a tubular neighborhood. Several global aspects are then considered. We provide a systematic study of the extension of the E8 bundle and characterize obstructions. Considering Y as a fiber bundle, we describe how the phase looks like on the base, hence providing dimensional reduction in the boundary case via the adiabatic limit of the eta invariant. The general use of the index theorem leads to a new effect given by a gravitational Chern-Simons term CS on Y whose restriction to the boundary would be a generalized WZW model. This suggests that holographic models of M-theory can be viewed as a sector within this index-theoretic approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4495

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet-to-Neumann mapHodge theoryeta invariants\(M\)-theory on manifold with boundaryChern-Simons invariantsgauge theory on manifold with boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) de Rham cohomology and algebraic geometry (14F40) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33)

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