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Main Authors: Sati, Hisham, Schreiber, Urs
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12431
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Schreiber, Urs
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Schreiber, Urs
contents After global completion of higher gauge fields (as appearing in higher-dimensional supergravity) by proper flux quantization in extraordinary nonabelian cohomology, the (non-perturbative, renormalized) topological quantum observables and quantum states of solitonic field histories are completely determined through a topological form of light-front quantization. We survey the logic of this construction and expand on aspects of the quantization argument. In the instructive example of 5D Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory (the gauge sector of 5D SuGra) dimensionally reduced to 3D, a suitable choice of flux quantization in Cohomotopy ("Hypothesis h") recovers this way the fine detail of the traditionally renormalized (Wilson loop) quantum observables of abelian Chern-Simons theory and makes novel predictions about anyons in fractional quantum (anomalous) Hall systems. An analogous choice ("Hypothesis H") of global completion of 11D higher Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory (the higher gauge sector of 11D SuGra) realizes various aspects of the topological sector of the conjectural "M-theory" and its M5-branes.
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spellingShingle Complete Topological Quantization of Higher Gauge Fields
Sati, Hisham
Schreiber, Urs
High Energy Physics - Theory
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
Algebraic Topology
Quantum Physics
Primary: 81T70, 81T45 81T13, 81T30, 55N20, 53C08, 55P62, Secondary: 83E50, 81V27, 81V70, 18G35, 81T35
After global completion of higher gauge fields (as appearing in higher-dimensional supergravity) by proper flux quantization in extraordinary nonabelian cohomology, the (non-perturbative, renormalized) topological quantum observables and quantum states of solitonic field histories are completely determined through a topological form of light-front quantization. We survey the logic of this construction and expand on aspects of the quantization argument. In the instructive example of 5D Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory (the gauge sector of 5D SuGra) dimensionally reduced to 3D, a suitable choice of flux quantization in Cohomotopy ("Hypothesis h") recovers this way the fine detail of the traditionally renormalized (Wilson loop) quantum observables of abelian Chern-Simons theory and makes novel predictions about anyons in fractional quantum (anomalous) Hall systems. An analogous choice ("Hypothesis H") of global completion of 11D higher Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory (the higher gauge sector of 11D SuGra) realizes various aspects of the topological sector of the conjectural "M-theory" and its M5-branes.
title Complete Topological Quantization of Higher Gauge Fields
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
Algebraic Topology
Quantum Physics
Primary: 81T70, 81T45 81T13, 81T30, 55N20, 53C08, 55P62, Secondary: 83E50, 81V27, 81V70, 18G35, 81T35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12431