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Non-Lorentzian M5-brane Theories from Holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-09-04 v2

Abstract

M-theory on AdS7×S4AdS_7 \times S^4 admits a description where the AdS7AdS_7 factor is constructed as a timelike Hopf fibration over a non-compact three dimensional complex projective space CP~3\tilde{\mathbb{CP}}^3. We consider the worldvolume theory for M5-branes at a fixed CP~3\tilde{\mathbb{CP}}^3 radius which, after reduction along the timelike fibre, is given by an Ω\Omega-deformed Yang-Mills theory with eight supercharges. Taking the radius to infinity then induces a classical RG flow. We construct the fixed point action which has an enhanced 24 supercharges and which can be understood as the (2,0)(2,0) theory of M5-branes on flat space reduced along a compact null Killing direction.

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@article{arxiv.1904.07547,
  title  = {Non-Lorentzian M5-brane Theories from Holography},
  author = {Neil Lambert and Arthur Lipstein and Paul Richmond},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.07547},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

21 pages, typos corrected, references added