Charged chiral fermions from M5-branes
Abstract We study M5-branes wrapped on a multi-centred Taub-NUT space. Reducing to String Theory on the S 1 fibration leads to D4-branes intersecting with D6-branes. D-braneology shows that there are additional charged chiral fermions from the open strings which stretch between the D4-branes and D6-...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2018-04-01
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Series: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP04(2018)051 |
Summary: | Abstract We study M5-branes wrapped on a multi-centred Taub-NUT space. Reducing to String Theory on the S 1 fibration leads to D4-branes intersecting with D6-branes. D-braneology shows that there are additional charged chiral fermions from the open strings which stretch between the D4-branes and D6-branes. From the M-theory point of view the appearance of these charged states is mysterious as the M5-branes are wrapped on a smooth manifold. In this paper we show how these states arise in the M5-brane worldvolume theory and argue that are governed by a WZWN-like model where the topological term is five-dimensional. |
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ISSN: | 1029-8479 |