Work

Topological M-strings and supergroup Wess-Zumino-Witten models

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: We study the boundary conditions in topologically twisted Chern-Simons matter theories with the Lie 3-algebraic structure. We find that the supersymmetric boundary conditions and the gauge-invariant boundary conditions can be unified as complexified gauge-invariant boundary conditions which lead to supergroup Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models. We propose that the low-energy effective field theories on the two-dimensional intersection of multiple M2-branes on a holomorphic curve inside K3 with two nonparallel M5-branes on the K3 are supergroup WZW models from the topologically twisted Bagger-Lambert-Gustavson model and the Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena model.

Source: Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.94.065016

Authors: Tadashi Okazaki, Douglas J. Smith

Institution: National Taiwan University

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, Science and Technology Facilities Council

Awards: G4845697651, G7126319407, Particles, Fields and Spacetime