Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: We show that the central charges that group theory allows in the (2, 0)-supersymmetry translations algebra arise from a string and a three-brane by commuting two supercharges. We show that the net force between two such parallel strings vanishes. We show that all the coupling constants are fixed numbers, due to supersymmetry, and self-duality of the three-form field strength. We obtain a charge quantization for the self-dual field strength, and show that when compactifying on a two-torus, it reduces to the usual quantization condition of N = 4 SYM with gauge group SU(2), and with coupling constant and theta angle given by the τ-parameter of the two-torus, provided that we pick that chiral theory which corresponds to a theta function with zero characteristics, as expected on manifolds of this form.
Author: ANDREAS GUSTAVSSON
Institution: Chalmers University of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2017755234