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The M5-brane action revisited

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-16 v2

Abstract

We construct an alternative form of the M5-brane action in which the six-dimensional worldvolume is subject to a covariant split into 3+3 directions by a triplet of auxiliary fields. We consider the relation of this action to the original form of the M5-brane action and to a Nambu-Poisson 5-brane action based on the Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson model with the gauge symmetry of volume preserving diffeomorphisms

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@article{arxiv.1308.2231,
  title  = {The M5-brane action revisited},
  author = {Sheng-Lan Ko and Dmitri Sorokin and Pichet Vanichchapongjaroen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2231},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

26 pages, v2: minor corrections, references added and updated

R2 v1 2026-06-22T01:07:13.920Z