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M2-M5 giant graviton expansions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-12-20 v2

Abstract

We examine the giant graviton expansions of the Coulomb and Higgs indices for the M2-brane SCFTs to find the closed-form expressions for the indices that encode the spectra of the 1/41/4-BPS M5-brane giant gravitons and the 1/31/3-BPS orbifold M5-brane giant gravitons. Consequently, we get exact forms of the twisted indices for the 6d (2,0)(2,0) theories describing a stack of NN M5-branes which generalize the unrefined indices. We confirm that they are also beautifully expanded with respect to the indices for the M2-brane giant gravitons which are obtained from the Coulomb and Higgs indices for the M2-brane SCFTs upon the change of variables.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2409.13239,
  title  = {M2-M5 giant graviton expansions},
  author = {Hirotaka Hayashi and Tomoki Nosaka and Tadashi Okazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13239},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

54 pages, v2: published version in JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-28T18:50:59.196Z