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Flux quantization on M5-branes
DOI:10.1007/JHEP10(2024)140.png)
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We highlight the need for global completion of the field content in the M5-brane sigma-model analogous to Dirac's charge/flux quantization, and we point out that the superspace Bianchi identities on the worldvolume and on its ambient supergravity background constrain the M5's flux-quantization law to be in a non-abelian cohomology theory rationally equivalent to a twisted form of co-Homotopy. In order to clearly bring out this subtle point we give a streamlined re-derivation of the worldvolume 3-flux via M5 super-embeddings. Finally, assuming the flux-quantization law to actually be in co-Homotopy (Hypothesis H) we show how this implies Skyrmion-like solitons on general M5-worldvolumes and (abelian) anyonic solitons on the boundaries of open M5-branes in heterotic M-theory.
Keyword:
Anyons
P-Branes
Superspaces
Sigma Models
期刊
IF:
5.5
论文数:
4.0W
被引数:
13.7W

