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Flavor from M5-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-03-28 v1

Abstract

We study various aspects of the defect conformal field theory that arises when placing a single M5-brane probe in AdS_4 x S^7. We derive the full set of fluctuation modes and dimensions of the corresponding dual operators. We argue that the latter does not depend on the presence of a non-trivial magnetic flux on the M5-brane world-volume. Finally we give a mass to the hypermultiplet living on the defect, and compute the resulting mesonic spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.1005.2133,
  title  = {Flavor from M5-branes},
  author = {Bartomeu Fiol},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2133},
  year   = {2011}
}

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19 pages

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