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Title: Higher-form symmetries and their anomalies in M-/F-theory duality

Abstract

We explore higher-form symmetries of M- and F-theory compactified on elliptic fibrations, determined by the topology of their asymptotic boundaries. The underlying geometric structures are shown to be equivalent to known characterizations of the gauge group topology in F-theory via Mordell-Weil torsion and string junctions. We further study dimensional reductions of the 11d Chern-Simons term in the presence of torsional boundary G4-fluxes, which encode background gauge fields of center one-form symmetries in the lower-dimensional effective gauge theory. We find contributions that can be interpreted as ’t Hooft anomalies involving the one-form symmetry which originate from a fractionalization of the instanton number of non-Abelian gauge theories in F-/M-theory compactifications to 8d/7d and 6d/5d.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Simons Foundation; Slovenian Research Agency; Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Endowed Chair
OSTI Identifier:
1837110
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1979983
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC013528Y; SC0013528; 724069; P1-0306
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 104 Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; anomalies; compactification; M-theory; sting dualities; discrete symmetries; symmetries

Citation Formats

Cvetič, Mirjam, Dierigl, Markus, Lin, Ling, and Zhang, Hao Y. Higher-form symmetries and their anomalies in M-/F-theory duality. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.126019.
Cvetič, Mirjam, Dierigl, Markus, Lin, Ling, & Zhang, Hao Y. Higher-form symmetries and their anomalies in M-/F-theory duality. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.126019
Cvetič, Mirjam, Dierigl, Markus, Lin, Ling, and Zhang, Hao Y. Wed . "Higher-form symmetries and their anomalies in M-/F-theory duality". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.126019.
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title = {Higher-form symmetries and their anomalies in M-/F-theory duality},
author = {Cvetič, Mirjam and Dierigl, Markus and Lin, Ling and Zhang, Hao Y.},
abstractNote = {We explore higher-form symmetries of M- and F-theory compactified on elliptic fibrations, determined by the topology of their asymptotic boundaries. The underlying geometric structures are shown to be equivalent to known characterizations of the gauge group topology in F-theory via Mordell-Weil torsion and string junctions. We further study dimensional reductions of the 11d Chern-Simons term in the presence of torsional boundary G4-fluxes, which encode background gauge fields of center one-form symmetries in the lower-dimensional effective gauge theory. We find contributions that can be interpreted as ’t Hooft anomalies involving the one-form symmetry which originate from a fractionalization of the instanton number of non-Abelian gauge theories in F-/M-theory compactifications to 8d/7d and 6d/5d.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.104.126019},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 12,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Wed Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}

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