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World-volume effective action of exotic five-brane in M-theory

Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2016, Article number: 168 (2016) Cite this article

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We study the world-volume effective action of an exotic five-brane, known as the M-theory 53-brane (M53-brane) in eleven dimensions. The supermultiplet of the world-volume theory is the \( \mathcal{N}=\left(2,\ 0\right) \) tensor multiplet in six dimensions. The world-volume action contains three Killing vectors \( {\widehat{k}}_{\widehat{I}}^M \) (Ȋ = 1, 2, 3) associated with the U(1)3 isometry. We find the effective T-duality rule for the eleven-dimensional backgrounds that transforms the M5-brane effective action to that of the M53-brane. We also show that our action provides the source term for the M53-brane geometry in eleven-dimensional supergravity.

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  1. Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University, Hiyoshi 4-1-1, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 223-8521, Japan

    Tetsuji Kimura

  2. Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan

    Tetsuji Kimura

  3. Department of Physics, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, 252-0373, Japan

    Shin Sasaki

  4. Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2, Science Drive 3, Singapore, 117542, Singapore

    Masaya Yata

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Kimura, T., Sasaki, S. & Yata, M. World-volume effective action of exotic five-brane in M-theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 168 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)168

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Keywords

  • p-branes
  • M-Theory
  • String Duality