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M2-Branes And The (2,0) Superalgebra

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-10-12 v2

Abstract

We present a generalization of the six-dimensional (2,0) system of arXiv:1007.2982 to include a constant abelian 3-form. For vanishing 3-form this system is known to provide a variety descriptions of parallel M5-branes. For a particular choice of 3-form the system is shown to reduce to that of two M2-branes. Thus this generalised (2,0) system provides a unified description of two parallel M2-branes or M5-branes.

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@article{arxiv.1608.04748,
  title  = {M2-Branes And The (2,0) Superalgebra},
  author = {Neil Lambert and Damiano Sacco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04748},
  year   = {2016}
}

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