Critical fields on the M5-brane and noncommutative open strings
Abstract
The M5-brane is investigated near critical field-strength. We show that this limit on the M5-brane reduces to the noncommutative open string limit on the D4-brane. The reduction on a two-torus leads to both the noncommutative open string limit and the noncommutative Yang-Mills limit on the D3-brane. The decoupled noncommutative five-brane is identified with the strong coupling limit of the noncommutative open string theory on the D4-brane and S-duality on the noncommutative D3-brane is identified with a modular transformation on the five-brane. We argue that the open membrane metric defines a finite length scale on the worldvolume of the M5-brane in the decoupling limit. This length scale can be associated to the effective length scale of an open membrane.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0006112,
title = {Critical fields on the M5-brane and noncommutative open strings},
author = {E. Bergshoeff and D. S. Berman and J. P. van der Schaar and P. Sundell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0006112},
year = {2014}
}
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RevTex 16 pages, one figure,typos corrected and reference added