Partially twisted superconformal M5 brane in R-symmetry gauge field backgrounds

Dongsu Bak, Andreas Gustavsson

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Abstract

Abstract: We obtain the action for a curved superconformal abelian M5 brane with the background R-symmetry gauge field turned on. We then restrict ourselves to superconformal M5 brane on a sphere times flat Minkowski space. We choose R-symmetry SO(1, 4) instead of SO(5), which enables us to partially twist on Minkowski space and replace it by some curved Lorentzian manifold. We obtain M5 brane actions on M1,1 × S4 and M1,2 × S3 where actions and all fields, including the background gauge field, are real. Dimensional reduction along time gives real 5d SYM actions with nonabelian generalizations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number93
Pages (from-to)1-32
Number of pages32
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2015
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2015

Keywords

  • Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
  • M-Theory
  • Supersymmetric gauge theory
  • Topological Field Theories

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