M2-Branes in N=3 Harmonic Superspace
Abstract
We give a brief account of the recently proposed N=3 superfield formulation of the N=6, 3D superconformal theory of Aharony et al (ABJM) describing a low-energy limit of the system of multiple M2-branes on the AdS_4 x S^7/Z_k background. This formulation is given in harmonic N=3 superspace and reveals a number of surprising new features. In particular, the sextic scalar potential of ABJM arises at the on-shell component level as the result of eliminating appropriate auxiliary fields, while there is no any explicit superpotential at the off-shell superfield level.
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@article{arxiv.0912.5505,
title = {M2-Branes in N=3 Harmonic Superspace},
author = {Evgeny Ivanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.5505},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
9 pages, Talk at the Conference "Selected Topics in Mathematical and Particle Physics", In Honor of the 70-th Birthday of Jiri Niederle, Prague, 5 - 7 May 2009; the version published in the proceedings