Complete Topological Quantization of Higher Gauge Fields

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12431v1
• Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:09:40 GMT
• Title: Complete Topological Quantization of Higher Gauge Fields
• Authors: Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber,
• Abstract summary: topological quantum observables and quantum states of solitonic field histories are completely determined through a topological form of light-front quantization.<n>An analogous choice ("Hypothesis H") of global completion of 11D higher Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory realizes various aspects of the topological sector of the conjectural "M-theory" and its M5-branes.
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• Abstract: After global completion of higher gauge fields (as appearing in higher-dimensional supergravity) by proper flux quantization in extraordinary nonabelian cohomology, the (non-perturbative, renormalized) topological quantum observables and quantum states of solitonic field histories are completely determined through a topological form of light-front quantization. We survey the logic of this construction and expand on aspects of the quantization argument. In the instructive example of 5D Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory (the gauge sector of 5D SuGra) dimensionally reduced to 3D, a suitable choice of flux quantization in Cohomotopy ("Hypothesis h") recovers this way the fine detail of the traditionally renormalized (Wilson loop) quantum observables of abelian Chern-Simons theory and makes novel predictions about anyons in fractional quantum (anomalous) Hall systems. An analogous choice ("Hypothesis H") of global completion of 11D higher Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory (the higher gauge sector of 11D SuGra) realizes various aspects of the topological sector of the conjectural "M-theory" and its M5-branes.

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