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5D Yang-Mills instantons from ABJM Monopoles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-05-30 v3

Abstract

In the presence of a background supergravity flux, N M2-branes will expand via the Myers effect into M5-branes wrapped on a fuzzy three-sphere. In previous work the fluctuations of the M2-branes were shown to be described by the five-dimensional Yang-Mills gauge theory associated to D4-branes. We show that the ABJM prescription for eleven-dimensional momentum in terms of magnetic flux lifts to an instanton flux of the effective five-dimensional Yang-Mills theory on the sphere, giving an M-theory interpretation for these instantons.

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@article{arxiv.1111.5619,
  title  = {5D Yang-Mills instantons from ABJM Monopoles},
  author = {N. Lambert and H. Nastase and C. Papageorgakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5619},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

29 pages, Latex; v2: added references and a comment on the graviphoton coupling in section 5; v3: typos corrected and references added

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