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Flux- and charge-quantization laws for higher gauge fields of Maxwell type -- e.g. the common electromagnetic field (the "A-field") but also the B-, RR-, and C-fields considered in string/M-theory -- specify non-perturbative completions of these fields by encoding their solitonic behaviour and hence by specifying the discrete charges carried by the individual branes (higher-dimensional monopoles or solitons) that source the field fluxes. This article surveys the general (rational-)homotopy theoretic understanding of flux- and charge-quantization via the Chern-Dold character map generalized to the non-linear (self-sourcing) Bianchi identities that appear in higher-dimensional supergravity theories, notably for B&RR-fields in D=10, for the C-field in D=11 supergravity, and for the B-field on fivebrane worldvolumes.

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  • Anyons on M5-Probes of Seifert 3-Orbifolds via Flux Quantization hep-th · 2024-11-25 · conditional · none · ref 75 · internal anchor

    Choosing equivariant twistorial Cohomotopy as the flux quantization law on single M5-probes wrapped on a Z2-orbifold yields abelian anyonic quantum states on the orbifold fixed locus.