Geometric and topological structures related to M-branes II: Twisted String and String^c structures

Understand

The actions, anomalies, and quantization conditions allow the M2-brane and the M5-brane to support, in a natural way, structures beyond Spin on their worldvolumes.

• The main examples are twisted String structures.
• This also extends to twisted String^c structures, which we introduce and relate to twisted String structures.
• The relation of the C-field to Chern-Simons theory suggests the use of the String cobordism category to describe the M2-brane.