M-Theory on Spin(7) Manifolds

Preprint

12 November 2001

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/0109025

Abstract

We study M-theory on two classes of manifolds of Spin(7) holonomy that are developing an isolated conical singularity. We construct explicitly a new class of Spin(7) manifolds and analyse in detail the topology of the corresponding classical spacetimes. We discover also an intricate interplay between various anomalies in M-theory, string theory, and gauge theory within these models, and in particular find a connection between half-integral G-fluxes in M-theory and Chern-Simons terms of the N=1, D=3 effective theory.

Keywords

ANOMALIES
CHERN SIMONS
CORRESPONDING CLASSICAL
HALF INTEGRAL
INTEGRAL
INTRICATE INTERPLAY
MANIFOLDS
SINGULARITY
THEORY
TWO CLASSES

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Published version: Nuclear Physics B, 625 (1-2), 3.

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