Torsion in cohomology and dimensional reduction

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2023)061MaRDI QIDQ6056897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gonzalo F. Casas, Fernando Marchesano, Matteo Zatti

Publication date 25 October 2023

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14959

zbMATH Keywords

D-branesdifferential and algebraic geometrydiscrete symmetriesflux compactifications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: Conventional wisdom dictates that $mathbb{Z}_N$ factors in the integral cohomology group $H^p(X_n,mathbbZ)$ of a compact manifold $X_n$ cannot be computed via smooth $p$-forms. We revisit this lore in light of the dimensional reduction of string theory on $X_n$, endowed with a $G$-structure metric that leads to a supersymmetric EFT. If massive $p$-form eigenmodes of the Laplacian enter the EFT, then torsion cycles coupling to them will have a non-trivial smeared delta form, that is an EFT long-wavelength description of $p$-form currents of the $(n-p)$-cycles of $X_n$. We conjecture that, whenever torsion cycles are calibrated, their linking number can be computed via their smeared delta forms. From the EFT viewpoint, a torsion factor in cohomology corresponds to a $mathbb{Z}_N$ gauge symmetry realised by a St"uckelberg-like action, and calibrated torsion cycles to BPS objects that source the massive fields involved in it.

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