2025/04/07 by Manuel Artime, Ralph Blumenhagen, Artime, Manuel +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.05392
openalex publication_date 2025/04/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The M-theoretic emergence proposal claims that in an isotropic decompactification limit to M-theory the full effective action is generated via quantum effects by integrating out only the light towers of states of the theory. In the BPS particle sector, these include transversally wrapped M2- and M5-branes possibly carrying Kaluza-Klein momentum. This implies that a longitudinally wrapped M5-brane, i.e. a wrapped D4-brane, is not to be included in emergence computations. In this work we collect explicit evidence supporting this point by examining an F4 gauge coupling in six dimensions, making use of the duality between heterotic string theory on T4 and strongly coupled type IIA on K3. In this instance, the M-theoretic emergence proposal can be viewed as a tool for making predictions for the microscopic behavior of string theoretic amplitudes.