Abstract
M2-branes couple to a 3-form potential, which suggests that their description involves a non-abelian 2-gerbe or, equivalently, a principal 3-bundle. We show that current M2-brane models fit this expectation: they can be reformulated as higher gauge theories on such categorified bundles. We thus add to the still very sparse list of physically interesting higher gauge theories.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1450075 |
Journal | International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Jul 2014 |
Keywords
- hep-th
- math-ph
- math.MP