Large Gauge Transformations in M-theory

Details Large Gauge Transformations in M-theory Large Gauge Transformations in M-theory

2002-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212081v1

J.Geom.Phys. 48 (2003) 100-132

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

45 pages, 9 figures, LaTeX

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0393-0440(03)00027-5

We cast M-brane interactions including intersecting membranes and five-branes in manifestly gauge invariant form using an arrangement of higher dimensional Dirac surfaces. We show that the noncommutative gauge symmetry present in the doubled M-theory formalism involving dual 3-form and 6-form gauge fields is preserved in a form quantised over the integers. The proper context for discussing large noncommutative gauge transformations is relative cohomology, in which the 3-form transformation parameters become exact when restricted to the five-brane worldvolume. We show how this structure yields the lattice of M-theory charges and gives rise to the conjectured 7D Hopf-Wess-Zumino term.

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