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M5-branes and Wilson Surfaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We investigate the M5-brane description of the Wilson surface operators in six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theory from AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider the Wilson surface operators in high-dimensional representation, whose description could be M5-brane string soliton solutions in AdS7×S4AdS_7\times S^4 background. We construct such string soliton solutions from the covariant M5-brane equations of motion and discuss their properties. The supersymmetry analysis shows that these solutions are half-BPS. We also discuss the subtle issue on the boundary terms.

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@article{arxiv.0707.3978,
  title  = {M5-branes and Wilson Surfaces},
  author = {Bin Chen and Wei He and Jun-Bao Wu and Liang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3978},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

30 pages, Latex; little revision;Typos corrected, references added, JHEP published version

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