Ninebrane structures

DOI10.1142/S0219887815500413zbMATH Open1316.81080arXiv1405.7686OpenAlexW3037196709MaRDI QIDQ5255209FDOQ5255209

Authors: Hisham Sati 

Publication date: 12 June 2015

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

Abstract: String structures in degree four are associated with cancellation of anomalies of string theory in ten dimensions. Fivebrane structures in degree eight have recently been shown to be associated with cancellation of anomalies associated to the NS5-brane in string theory as well as the M5-brane in M-theory. We introduce and describe "Ninebrane structures" in degree twelve and demonstrate how they capture some anomaly cancellation phenomena in M-theory. Along the way we also define certain variants, considered as intermediate cases in degree nine and ten, which we call "2-Orientation" and "2-Spin structures", respectively. As in the lower degree cases, we also discuss the natural twists of these structures and characterize the corresponding topological groups associated to each of the structures, which likewise admit refinements to differential cohomology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7686

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zbMATH Keywords

differential cohomologyanomaliesobstruction theorystring groupWhitehead towertwisted structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) Postnikov systems, (k)-invariants (55S45)

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