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M5 from M2

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

Recently an action based on Lie 3-algebras was proposed to describe M2-branes. We study the case of infinite dimensional Lie 3-algebras based on the Nambu-Poisson structure of three dimensional manifolds. We show that the model contains self-dual 2-form gauge fields in 6 dimensions, and the result may be interpreted as the M5-brane world-volume action.

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@article{arxiv.0804.3629,
  title  = {M5 from M2},
  author = {Pei-Ming Ho and Yutaka Matsuo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3629},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

15 pages, minor modification

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