M 5-brane and superconformal (0,2) tensor multiplet in 6 dimensions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v4
Abstract
We present a gauge-fixed M 5-brane action: a 6-dimensional field theory of a self-interacting (0,2) tensor multiplet with 32 worldvolume supersymmetries. The quadratic part of this action is shown to be invariant under rigid OSp(6,2|4) superconformal symmetry, with 16 supersymmetries and 16 special supersymmetries. We explore a deep relation between the superconformal symmetry on the worldvolume of the brane and symmetry of the near horizon anti-de Sitter infinite throat geometry of the M 5-brane in space-time.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9711161,
title = {M 5-brane and superconformal (0,2) tensor multiplet in 6 dimensions},
author = {Piet Claus and Renata Kallosh and Antoine Van Proeyen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9711161},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
42 pages, latex, no figures; v2: some formulas corrected:v3: version to be published in Nuclear Physics B; v4:The name of the conformal algebra OSp(6,2|4) has been replaced by the correct name OSp(8*|4)