Anyons on M5-probes of Seifert 3-orbifoldsvia flux quantization

Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Article number36
JournalLetters in Mathematical Physics
Volume115
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2025

Keywords

  • Anyons
  • Branes
  • Generalized cohomology
  • Geometric engineering
  • M-theory
  • Orbifolds

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Mathematical Physics

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