Topological sectors for heterotic M5-brane charges under Hypothesis H
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2020
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Roberts, D.M.
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The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020; 2020(6):52-0-52-16
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David Michael Roberts
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Assuming Fiorenza-Sati-Schreiber’s Hypothesis H, on the charge quantization of M-theory’s C -field, the topological sectors of the resulting Stringc² (4)-valued higher gauge theory on a heterotic M5-brane are classified by homotopy classes of maps from the worldvolume ΣM₅ to BStringc² (4). This note calculates the sectors in a number of examples of M5-brane topology, including examples considered in the 3d-3d correspondence, the emergence of skyrmions from higher-dimensional instantons and Witten’s analysis of the S-duality of 4d Yang-Mills theory.
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Published: June 5, 2020
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© The Authors. Article funded by SCOAP3. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.