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BPS surface observables in six-dimensional (2,0) theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

The supergroup OSp(8*|4), which is the superconformal group of (2,0) theory in six dimensions, is broken to the subgroup OSp(4|2)xOSp(4|2) by demanding the invariance of a certain product in a superspace with eight bosonic and four fermionic dimensions. We show that this is consistent with the symmetry breaking induced by the presence of a flat two-dimensional BPS surface in the usual (2,0) superspace, which has six bosonic and sixteen fermionic dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0609060,
  title  = {BPS surface observables in six-dimensional (2,0) theory},
  author = {Par Arvidsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0609060},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, LaTeX. v2: reference added