Abstract
We observe that there is a rigorous derivation of (abelian) anyonic quantum states, hence of “topological order”, on the 1+2-dimensional fixed locus of M5-probes wrapped over a trivially Seifert-fibered 3-orbifold singularity. Similar statements have previously been conjectured by appeal to the unknown dynamics of “coincident” M5-branes, but neglecting effects of flux-quantization that, as we highlight, entail anyonic solitons already in the rigorously tractable case of single M5-brane probes. This is possible after globally completing the “self-dual” tensor field on probe M5-branes by flux-quantization in the non-abelian cohomology theory called equivariant twistorial Cohomotopy, which is admissible by recent results.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 36 |
Journal | Letters in Mathematical Physics |
Volume | 115 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2025 |
Keywords
- Anyons
- Branes
- Generalized cohomology
- Geometric engineering
- M-theory
- Orbifolds
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Mathematical Physics