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Mass-Deformed Bagger-Lambert Theory and its BPS Objects

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We find a sixteen supersymmetric mass-deformed Bagger-Lambert theory with SO(4)×SO(4)SO(4)\times SO(4) global R-symmetry. The R-charge plays the `non-central' term in the superalgebra. This theory has one symmetric vacuum and two in-equivalent broken sectors of vacua. Each sector of the broken symmetry has the SO(4) geometry. We find the 1/2 BPS domain walls connecting the symmetric phase and any broken phase, and 1/4 BPS supertube-like objects, which may appear as anyonic q-balls in the symmetric phase or vortices in the broken phase. We also discuss mass deformations which reduces the number of supersymmetries.

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@article{arxiv.0804.2519,
  title  = {Mass-Deformed Bagger-Lambert Theory and its BPS Objects},
  author = {Kazuo Hosomichi and Ki-Myeong Lee and Sungjay Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2519},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages, JHEP style, no figures, corrected equations and corrected reference

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