Higher form symmetries, membranes and flux quantization

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Caro-Perez, F, M P Garcia del Moral, Restuccia, A
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 31.10.2024
• Subjects: Branes; Flux quantization; Operators (mathematics); Topology

Higher Forms Symmetries (HFS) of a closed bosonic M2-brane theory formulated from the world-volume perspective 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 1...