Twistorial cohomotopy implies Green–Schwarz anomaly cancellation
Domenico Fiorenza, Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber
Abstract
We characterize the integral cohomology and the rational homotopy type of the maximal Borel-equivariantization of the combined Hopf/twistor fibration, and find that subtle relations satisfied by the cohomology generators are just those that govern Hořava–Witten’s proposal for the extension of the Green–Schwarz mechanism from heterotic string theory to heterotic M-theory. We discuss how this squares with the Hypothesis H that the elusive mathematical foundation of M-theory is based on charge quantization in tangentially twisted unstable Cohomotopy theory.
Topics & Concepts
Heterotic string theoryMathematicsCohomologyFibrationHomotopyPure mathematicsAlgebra over a fieldMathematical physicsHomotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic TopologyBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsAlgebraic structures and combinatorial models