{ "id": "2002.11093", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-02-25T18:44:32.000Z", "updated": "2020-02-25T18:44:32.000Z", "title": "Twisted Cohomotopy implies twisted String structure on M5-branes", "authors": [ "Domenico Fiorenza", "Hisham Sati", "Urs Schreiber" ], "comment": "11 pages", "categories": [ "hep-th", "math-ph", "math.AT", "math.DG", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "We show that charge-quantization of the M-theory C-field in J-twisted Cohomotopy implies emergence of a higher Sp(1)-gauge field on single heterotic M5-branes, which exhibits worldvolume twisted String structure.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-02-25T18:44:32.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "cohomotopy implies twisted string structure", "twisted cohomotopy implies twisted string", "single heterotic m5-branes", "j-twisted cohomotopy implies emergence", "higher sp" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 11, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }