Topological actions via gauge variations of higher structures
arXiv:1810.05349 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.012
Abstract
In this note we provide a new perspective on the topological parts of several action functionals in string and M-theory. We show that rationally these can be viewed as large gauge transformations corresponding to variations of higher structures, such as String, Fivebrane, and Ninebrane structures.
References and material on the heterotic case added, published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1612.06983
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