Twisted cohomotopy implies M5-brane anomaly cancellation

Hisham Sati; Urs Schreiber

doi:10.1007/s11005-021-01452-8

Twisted cohomotopy implies M5-brane anomaly cancellation

Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber

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We highlight what seems to be a remaining subtlety in the argument for the cancellation of the total anomaly associated with the M5-brane in M-theory. Then, we prove that this subtlety is resolved under the hypothesis that the C-field flux is charge-quantized in the generalized cohomology theory called J-twisted cohomotopy.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	120
Journal	Letters in Mathematical Physics
Volume	111
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-021-01452-8
State	Published - Oct 2021

Keywords

Anomaly cancellation
Cohomotopy theory
Flux quantization
M-theory
M5-brane

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Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Mathematical Physics

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