TWISTED TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURES RELATED TO M-BRANES

DOI10.1142/S0219887811005567zbMath1229.81256arXiv1008.1755MaRDI QIDQ3098887

Hisham Sati

Publication date: 18 November 2011

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1755

zbMATH Keywords

anomaliesM-branesstring structuresfivebrane structuresspin characteristic classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21)

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