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Interaction between M2-branes and Bulk Form Fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-03-17 v3

Abstract

We construct the interaction terms between the world-volume fields of multiple M2-branes and the 3- and 6-form fields in the context of ABJM theory with U(NN)×\timesU(NN) gauge symmetry. A consistency check is made in the simplest case of a single M2-brane, i.e, our construction matches the known effective action of M2-brane coupled to antisymmetric 3-form field. We show that when dimensionally reduced, our couplings coincide with the effective action of D2-branes coupled to R-R 3- and 5-form fields in type IIA string theory. We also comment on the relation between a coupling with a specific 6-form field configuration and the supersymmetry preserving mass deformation in ABJM theory.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1009.5209,
  title  = {Interaction between M2-branes and Bulk Form Fields},
  author = {Yoonbai Kim and O-Kab Kwon and Hiroaki Nakajima and D. D. Tolla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.5209},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

30 pages, version to appear in JHEP

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