Non-abelian Action for Multiple Five-Branes with Self-Dual Tensors

2012/03/31 by Chong-Sun Chu, Sheng-Lan Ko · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th #math-ph #math.MP

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep05(2012)028

published as JHEP05(2012)028 · LaTeX, 26 pages. v2: improved discussion of Lorentz symmetry. ref added. v3: add comments in the discussion section on the inclusion of scalar fields and supersymmetry; title changed to a more suitable one; version published in JHEP

arxiv created 2012/05/09 · arxiv updated 2015/06/04

Abstract

We construct an action for non-abelian 2-form in 6-dimensions. Our action consists of a non-abelian generalization of the abelian action of Perry and Schwarz for a single five-brane. It admits a self-duality equation on the field strength as the equation of motion. It has a modified 6d Lorentz symmetry. On dimensional reduction on a circle, our action gives the standard 5d Yang-Mills action plus higher order corrections. Based on these properties, we propose that our theory describes the gauge sector of multiple M5-branes in flat space.

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