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Coupling M2-branes to background fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-08-25 v1

Abstract

We discuss some of the issues arising in trying to extend the ABJM action to include couplings to background fields. This is analogous to the Myers-Chern-Simons terms of the multiple Dp-brane action. We review and extend previous results to include terms which are quadratic in the background fields. These are fixed by requiring that we recover the correct Myers-type terms upon using the novel Higgs mechanism to reduce to the multiple D2-brane action.

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@article{arxiv.1104.5397,
  title  = {Coupling M2-branes to background fields},
  author = {James P Allen and Douglas J Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.5397},
  year   = {2011}
}

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20 pages, no figures

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