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Dimensional reduction of M5 branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-02 v1

Abstract

We study dimensional reduction of M5 branes on a circle bundle when the supersymmetry parameter is not constant along the circle. When the gauge group is Abelian and the fields appear quadratically in the Lagrangian, we can always obtain a supersymmetric five-dimensional theory by keeping fermionic nonzero modes that match with the corresponding nonzero modes of the supersymmetry parameter, and by keeping the zero modes for the bosonic fields as usual. But a supersymmetric non-Abelian generalization can be found only under special circumstances. One instance where we find a non-Abelian supersymmetric generalization is when we perform dimensional reduction along a null direction.

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@article{arxiv.2109.02380,
  title  = {Dimensional reduction of M5 branes},
  author = {Andreas Gustavsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.02380},
  year   = {2022}
}

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55 pages

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