Sums over topological sectors and quantization of Fayet-Iliopoulos parameters

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2011.V15.N4.A7zbMATH Open1250.83057arXiv1012.5999MaRDI QIDQ451145FDOQ451145

Authors: Simeon Hellerman, Eric Sharpe 

Publication date: 21 September 2012

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

Abstract: In this paper we discuss quantization of the Fayet-Iliopoulos parameter in supergravity theories with altered nonperturbative sectors, which were recently used to argue a fractional quantization condition. Nonlinear sigma models with altered nonperturbative sectors are the same as nonlinear sigma models on special stacks known as gerbes. After reviewing the existing results on such theories in two dimensions, we discuss examples of gerby moduli `spaces' appearing in four-dimensional field theory and string compactifications, and the effect of various dualities. We discuss global topological defects arising when a field or string theory moduli space has a gerbe structure. We also outline how to generalize results of Bagger-Witten and more recent authors on quantization issues in supergravities from smooth manifolds to smooth moduli stacks, focusing particular attention on stacks that have gerbe structures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5999

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Supergravity (83E50) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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