Constraints on heterotic M-theory from s-cobordism

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.08.006zbMATH Open1229.81257arXiv1102.1171OpenAlexW2038317773MaRDI QIDQ659346FDOQ659346

Authors: Hisham Sati 

Publication date: 18 January 2012

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We interpret heterotic M-theory in terms of h-cobordism, that is the eleven-manifold is a product of the ten-manifold times an interval is translated into a statement that the former is a cobordism of the latter which is a homtopy equivalence. In the non-simply connected case, which is important for model building, the interpretation is then in terms of s-cobordism, so that the cobordism is a simple-homotopy equivalence. This gives constraints on the possible cobordisms depending on the fundamental groups and hence provides a characterization of possible compactification manifolds using the Whitehead group-- a quotient of algebraic K-theory of the integral group ring of the fundamental group-- and a distinguished element, the Whitehead torsion. We also consider the effect on the dynamics via diffeomorphisms and general dimensional reduction, and comment on the effect on F-theory compactifications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1171

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) (h)- and (s)-cobordism (57R80)

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