Flux quantization on M5-branes
Abstract We highlight the need for global completion of the field content in the M5-brane sigma-model analogous to Dirac’s charge/flux quantization, and we point out that the superspace Bianchi identities on the worldvolume and on its ambient supergravity background constrain the M5’s flux-quantizat...
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| Formaat: | Artikel |
| Taal: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2024-10-01
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| Reeks: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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| Online toegang: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)140 |
| Samenvatting: | Abstract We highlight the need for global completion of the field content in the M5-brane sigma-model analogous to Dirac’s charge/flux quantization, and we point out that the superspace Bianchi identities on the worldvolume and on its ambient supergravity background constrain the M5’s flux-quantization law to be in a non-abelian cohomology theory rationally equivalent to a twisted form of co-Homotopy. In order to clearly bring out this subtle point we give a streamlined re-derivation of the worldvolume 3-flux via M5 “super-embeddings”. Finally, assuming the flux-quantization law to actually be in co-Homotopy (“Hypothesis H”) we show how this implies Skyrmion-like solitons on general M5-worldvolumes and (abelian) anyonic solitons on the boundaries of “open M5-branes” in heterotic M-theory. |
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| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |