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Dimensional Reduction of Cobordism and K-theory

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arxiv 2208.01656 v2 pith:6L4A43OF submitted 2022-08-02 hep-th

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keywords cobordismgroupsk-theorydimensionalreductionsymmetriestheoryaccordance
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It has been proposed that cobordism and K-theory groups, which can be mathematically related in certain cases, are physically associated to generalised higher-form symmetries. As a consequence, they should be broken or gauged in any consistent theory of quantum gravity, in accordance with swampland conjectures. We provide further support to this idea by showing that cobordism and K-theory groups of a general manifold $X$ reproduce the pattern of symmetries expected from the dimensional reduction of the theory on $X$, as well as their breaking and gauging. To this end, we employ the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence to compute such groups for common choices of $X$ in string compactifications.

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