TWISTED TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURES RELATED TO M-BRANES II: TWISTED Wu ANDWucSTRUCTURES

DOI10.1142/S0219887812500569zbMath1264.53054arXiv1109.4461MaRDI QIDQ3144210

Hisham Sati

Publication date: 7 December 2012

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4461

zbMATH Keywords

M-theoryStiefel-Whitney classesanomaliesstring structureM-branesWu classesspin structure and generalizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Obstruction theory in algebraic topology (55S35) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65)

Related Items (10)

Characteristic Classes ⋮ Framed M-branes, corners, and topological invariants ⋮ Extended higher cup-product Chern-Simons theories ⋮ Topological field theories on manifolds with Wu structures ⋮ String structures associated to indefinite Lie groups ⋮ On the contribution of Wu Wen-Tsün to algebraic topology ⋮ Differential KO-theory: constructions, computations, and applications ⋮ Generalized global symmetries of \(T[M\) theories. I.] ⋮ The \(E_8\) moduli 3-stack of the C-field in M-theory ⋮ Ninebrane structures

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