Heisenberg groups and noncommutative fluxes

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2006.07.014zbMATH Open1115.83031arXivhep-th/0605200OpenAlexW3101099859MaRDI QIDQ863940FDOQ863940

Authors: Daniel S. Freed, G. W. Moore, Graeme Segal 

Publication date: 12 February 2007

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a group-theoretical approach to the formulation of generalized abelian gauge theories, such as those appearing in string theory and M-theory. We explore several applications of this approach. First, we show that there is an uncertainty relation which obstructs simultaneous measurement of electric and magnetic flux when torsion fluxes are included. Next we show how to define the Hilbert space of a self-dual field. The Hilbert space is Z2-graded and we show that, in general, self-dual theories (including the RR fields of string theory) have fermionic sectors. We indicate how rational conformal field theories associated to the two-dimensional Gaussian model generalize to (4k+2)-dimensional conformal field theories. When our ideas are applied to the RR fields of string theory we learn that it is impossible to measure the K-theory class of a RR field. Only the reduction modulo torsion can be measured.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0605200

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zbMATH Keywords

topologystring theoryuncertainty principlegauge theoryRamond-Ramond fieldsgeneralized abelian gauge theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

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