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

Okazaki, Tadashi; Smith, Douglas J.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.94.065016

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Authors

Tadashi Okazaki

Professor Douglas Smith douglas.smith@durham.ac.uk
Head Of Department

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.

Citation

Okazaki, T., & Smith, D. J. (2016). Topological M-strings and supergroup Wess-Zumino-Witten models. Physical Review D, 94(6), Article 065016. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.94.065016

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Aug 29, 2016
Online Publication Date	Sep 14, 2016
Publication Date	Sep 14, 2016
Deposit Date	Sep 21, 2016
Publicly Available Date	Sep 30, 2016
Journal	Physical Review D
Print ISSN	2470-0010
Electronic ISSN	2470-0029
Publisher	American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	94
Issue	6
Article Number	065016
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.94.065016

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