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Coupling M2-branes to background fields

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We discuss some of the issues arising in trying to extend the ABJM action to include couplings to background fields. This is analogous to the Myers-Chern-Simons terms of the multiple Dp-brane action. We review and extend previous results to include terms which are quadratic in the background fields. These are fixed by requiring that we recover the correct Myers-type terms upon using the novel Higgs mechanism to reduce to the multiple D2-brane action.

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  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, U.K.

    James P. Allen & Douglas J. Smith

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Allen, J.P., Smith, D.J. Coupling M2-branes to background fields. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 78 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2011)078

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