Non-geometric magnetic flux and crossed modules

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2006.02.009zbMATH Open1109.81079arXivhep-th/0510135OpenAlexW1972962966MaRDI QIDQ877436FDOQ877436

J. Kalkkinen

Publication date: 20 April 2007

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

Abstract: It is shown that the BRST operator of twisted N=4 Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions is locally the same as the BRST operator of a fully decomposed non-Abelian gerbe. Using locally defined Yang-Mills theories we describe non-perturbative backgrounds that carry a novel magnetic flux. Given by elements of the crossed module G x Aut G, these non-geometric fluxes can be classified in terms of the cohomology class of the underlying non-Abelian gerbe, and generalise the centre ZG valued magnetic flux found by 't Hooft. These results shed light also on the description of non-local dynamics of the chiral five-brane in terms of non-Abelian gerbes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0510135

zbMATH Keywords

M-theoryfive-branesnon-Abelian gerbestwisted Yang--Mills

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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• Topological quantum field theory on non-Abelian gerbes

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