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 stringc 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) |
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Pages (from-to) | 93-108 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society |
Volume | 90 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2011 |
Keywords
- M-theory
- anomalies
- string structure
- string structure
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mathematics(all)