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M2-brane Perspective on N=6 Super Chern-Simons Theory at Level k

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-01-16 v2

Abstract

Recently, O. Aharony, O. Bergman, D. L. Jafferis and J. Maldacena (ABJM) proposed three-dimensional super Chern-Simons-matter theory, which at level k is supposed to describe the low energy limit of N M2-branes. For large N and k, but fixed 't Hooft coupling \lambda=N/k, it is dual to type IIA string theory on AdS_4 x CP^3. For large N but finite k, it is dual to M theory on AdS_4 x S^7/Z_k. In this paper, relying on the second duality, we find exact giant magnon and single spike solutions of membrane configurations on AdS_4 x S^7/Z_k by reducing the system to the Neumann-Rosochatius integrable model. We derive the dispersion relations and their finite-size corrections with explicit dependence on the level k.

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@article{arxiv.0810.2171,
  title  = {M2-brane Perspective on N=6 Super Chern-Simons Theory at Level k},
  author = {Changrim Ahn and P. Bozhilov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2171},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, References added

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