Supersymmetric Perturbations of the M5 brane

Niarchos, Vasilis

Abstract

We study long-wavelength supersymmetric deformations of brane solutions in supergravity using an extension of previous ideas within the general scheme of the blackfold approach. As a concrete example, we consider long-wavelength perturbations of the planar M2-M5 bound state solution in eleven-dimensional supergravity. We propose a specific ansatz for the first order deformation of the supergravity fields and explore how this deformation perturbs the Killing spinor equations. We find that a special part of these equations gives a projection equation on the Killing spinors that has the same structure as the κ-symmetry condition of the abelian M5 brane theory. Requiring a match between supergravity and gauge theory implies a specific non-linear gauge-gravity map between the bosonic fields of the abelian M5 brane theory and the gravity-induced fluid-like degrees of freedom of the blackfold equations that control the perturbative gravity solution. This observation sheds new light on the SUGRA/DBI correspondence.

Citation

Niarchos, V. (2014). Supersymmetric Perturbations of the M5 brane. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(5), Article 023. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282014%29023

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 28, 2014
• Online Publication Date: May 7, 2014
• Publication Date: May 7, 2014
• Deposit Date: Oct 15, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 3, 2017
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Print ISSN: 1126-6708
• Electronic ISSN: 1029-8479
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2014
• Issue: 5
• Article Number: 023
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282014%29023
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1402804