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Partially twisted superconformal M5 brane in R-symmetry gauge field backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-01-27 v2

Abstract

We obtain the action for a curved superconformal abelian M5 brane with the background R-symmetry gauge field turned on. We then restrict ourselves to superconformal M5 brane on a sphere times flat Minkowski space. We choose R-symmetry SO(1,4) instead of SO(5), which enables us to partially twist on Minkowski space and replace it by some curved Lorentzian manifold. We obtain M5 brane actions on M1,1×S4M_{1,1} \times S^4 and M1,2×S3M_{1,2} \times S^3 where actions and all fields, including the background gauge field, are real. Dimensional reduction along time gives real 5d SYM actions with nonabelian generalizations.

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@article{arxiv.1508.04496,
  title  = {Partially twisted superconformal M5 brane in R-symmetry gauge field backgrounds},
  author = {Dongsu Bak and Andreas Gustavsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.04496},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

31 pages, a discussion on unitarity is added