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We revisit the relation of the six-dimensional (2, 0) M5-brane Conformal Field Theory compactified on S 1 to 5D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills Gauge Theory. We show that in the broken phase 5D super-Yang-Mills contains a spectrum of soliton states that can be identified with the complete Kaluza-Klein modes of an M2-brane ending on the M5-branes. This provides evidence that the (2, 0) theory on S 1 is equivalent to 5D super-Yang-Mills with no additional UV degrees of freedom, suggesting that the latter is in fact a well-defined quantum theory and possibly finite.
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On leave of absence from King’s College London. (N. Lambert)
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Lambert, N., Papageorgakis, C. & Schmidt-Sommerfeld, M. M5-Branes, D4-Branes and quantum 5D super-Yang-Mills. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 83 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2011)083
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