Symmetry Descent in M-theory, Part I: A Twelve-Dimensional Parent Theory
Abstract
We initiate a symmetry descent procedure for M-theory engineered quantum field theories. Starting from a higher form BF theory supplemented by a cubic bulk topological interaction, we construct a gauge-invariant bulk-boundary system whose edge modes acquire generalized Maxwell--Chern--Simons dynamics after the introduction of a metric-dependent boundary action. The nonlinear contribution to the boundary equation is induced entirely by the cubic bulk interaction. In the case of twelve dimensional bulk parent, the resulting boundary conditions reproduce the local flux equations of the eleven-dimensional supergravity C-field, including the gravitational I8 correction. Thus, the electric--magnetic pairing and the nonlinear Maxwell--Chern--Simons dynamics descend from a single 12D topological model. Using Hypothesis H, we identify the bulk equations with the Sullivan model of S4 and interpret their nonlinear gauge transformations as homotopies. We then propose a twisted 4-cohomotopy quantization of the bulk fields and a homotopy pullback description of the coupled bulk--boundary field space. The construction provides both a local dynamical mechanism for M-theory symmetry descent and a candidate global characterization of its fields.
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BibTeX
@misc{banerjee2026symmetry,
title = {{Symmetry Descent in M-theory, Part I: A Twelve-Dimensional Parent Theory}},
author = {Pinak Banerjee and Subham Roy and Xingyang Yu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.16141},
eprint = {2609.16141},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16141},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Symmetry Descent in M-theory, Part I: A Twelve-Dimensional Parent Theory
AU - Pinak Banerjee
AU - Subham Roy
AU - Xingyang Yu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.16141
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16141
AB - We initiate a symmetry descent procedure for M-theory engineered quantum field theories. Starting from a higher form BF theory supplemented by a cubic bulk topological interaction, we construct a gauge-invariant bulk-boundary system whose edge modes acquire generalized Maxwell--Chern--Simons dynamics after the introduction of a metric-dependent boundary action. The nonlinear contribution to the boundary equation is induced entirely by the cubic bulk interaction. In the case of twelve dimensional bulk parent, the resulting boundary conditions reproduce the local flux equations of the eleven-dimensional supergravity C-field, including the gravitational I_8 correction. Thus, the electric--magnetic pairing and the nonlinear Maxwell--Chern--Simons dynamics descend from a single 12D topological model. Using Hypothesis H, we identify the bulk equations with the Sullivan model of S^4 and interpret their nonlinear gauge transformations as homotopies. We then propose a twisted 4-cohomotopy quantization of the bulk fields and a homotopy pullback description of the coupled bulk--boundary field space. The construction provides both a local dynamical mechanism for M-theory symmetry descent and a candidate global characterization of its fields.
ER -