Geometric and topological structures related to M-branes II: Twisted string and stringC structures

Hisham Sati

doi:10.1017/S1446788711001261

Geometric and topological structures related to M-branes II: Twisted string and string^C structures

Hisham Sati

Mathematics

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Abstract

The actions, anomalies and quantization conditions allow the M2-brane and the M5-brane to support, in a natural way, structures beyond spin on their world-volumes. The main examples are twisted string structures. This also extends to twisted string^c structures which we introduce and relate to twisted string structures. The relation of the C-field to Chern-Simons theory suggests the use of the string cobordism category to describe the M2-brane.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	93-108
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society
Volume	90
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1446788711001261
State	Published - Feb 2011

Keywords

M-theory
anomalies
string structure
string structure

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Mathematics(all)

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10.1017/S1446788711001261

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