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Wilson-Polyakov surfaces and M-theory branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study the M-brane description of the Wilson-Polyakov surfaces in six-dimensional (2, 0) field theory at finite temperature. We investigate the membrane solution dual to a straight Wilons-Polyakov surface and compute the interaction potential between two parallel straight strings by using AdS/CFT correspondence. Furthermore we discuss the M5-brane solutions dual to various Wilson-Polyakov surfaces. Finally we obtain an universal result about M5-brane solutions in generic backgrounds.

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@article{arxiv.0802.2173,
  title  = {Wilson-Polyakov surfaces and M-theory branes},
  author = {Bin Chen and Jun-Bao Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.2173},
  year   = {2014}
}

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26 pages, 3 figures; v2 minor changes

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