1997/06/07 by A. Marshakov, M. Martellini, A. Morozov · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(97)01392-0
published as Phys.Lett. B418 (1998) 294-302 · LaTeX, 12pp, 4 figs in ps-format requiring psfig.tex
arxiv created 1997/06/07 · openalex publication_date 1998/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
5-branes of nontrivial topology are associated in the Diaconescu-Hanany-Witten-Witten (DHWW) approach with the Seiberg-Witten (SW) theory of low-energy effective actions. There are two different "pictures", related to the IIA and IIB phases of M-theory. They differ by the choice of 6d theory on the 5-brane world volume. In the IIB picture it is just the 6d SUSY Yang-Mills, while in the IIA picture it is a theory of SUSY self-dual 2-form. These two pictures appear capable to describe the (non-abelian) Lax operator and (abelian) low-energy effective action respectively. Thus IIB-IIA duality is related to the duality between Hitchin and Whitham integrable structures.