Higher form symmetries, membranes and flux quantization

Fuente: arXiv
Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Caro-Perez, F., del Moral, M. P. Garcia, Restuccia, A.
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2024
Materias:
Acceso en línea:
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866908312677646336
author Caro-Perez, F.
del Moral, M. P. Garcia
Restuccia, A.
author_facet Caro-Perez, F.
del Moral, M. P. Garcia
Restuccia, A.
contents Higher Forms Symmetries (HFS) of a closed bosonic M2-brane theory formulated on a compactified target space $\mathcal{M}_9 \times T^2$ are obtained. We show that the cancellation of the 't Hooft anomaly present in the theory is related to a 3-form flux with $\mathcal{G}_1^{\nabla}$-gerbe structure associated to the world-volume flux quantization condition. A Wilson surface is naturally introduced on the topological operator that characterize the holonomy of the M2-brane. The projection of the flux quantization condition inherited from the gerbe structure onto the spatial part of the worldvolume, leads to a flux quantization on the M2-brane. The topological operators realise discrete symmetries associated with the winding and the flux/monopole condition. The algebra of operators is well defined.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2410_14051
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Higher form symmetries, membranes and flux quantization
Caro-Perez, F.
del Moral, M. P. Garcia
Restuccia, A.
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Higher Forms Symmetries (HFS) of a closed bosonic M2-brane theory formulated on a compactified target space $\mathcal{M}_9 \times T^2$ are obtained. We show that the cancellation of the 't Hooft anomaly present in the theory is related to a 3-form flux with $\mathcal{G}_1^{\nabla}$-gerbe structure associated to the world-volume flux quantization condition. A Wilson surface is naturally introduced on the topological operator that characterize the holonomy of the M2-brane. The projection of the flux quantization condition inherited from the gerbe structure onto the spatial part of the worldvolume, leads to a flux quantization on the M2-brane. The topological operators realise discrete symmetries associated with the winding and the flux/monopole condition. The algebra of operators is well defined.
title Higher form symmetries, membranes and flux quantization
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14051