Schreiber Flux Quantization of Type IIA
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Pinak Banerjee, Hisham Sati and Urs Schreiber:
Flux Quantization of Type IIA in Unstable K-Theory
download: pdf (v2), arXiv:2605.25035 (v1)
The traditional conjecture that RR fluxes are quantized in stable K-cohomology fails to account for the presence of NS-brane sources: These impose nonlinear relations — reductions of the famous quadratic relation on M-brane flux — that can only be captured by unstable nonabelian cohomology theories. Here we consider a deformation of unstable K-theory which properly quantizes the fluxes coupling to D0/D2/NS5-branes, find a twisted version that quantizes also the fluxes coupling to NS1/D4-branes, and show that this oxidizes to a proper electromagnetic quantization of M-brane fluxes.
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