Anomaly free effective action for the elementary M5-brane
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We construct an effective action describing an elementary M5-brane interacting with dynamical eleven-dimensional supergravity, which is free from gravitational anomalies. The current associated to the elementary brane is taken as a distribution valued delta-function on the support of the 5-brane itself. Crucial ingredients of the construction are the consistent inclusion of the dynamics of the chiral two-form on the 5-brane, and the use of an invariant Chern-kernel allowing to introduce a D=11 three-form potential which is well defined on the worldvolume of the 5-brane.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0107061,
title = {Anomaly free effective action for the elementary M5-brane},
author = {K. Lechner and P. A. Marchetti and M. Tonin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0107061},
year = {2009}
}
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