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We perform a general reduction of an M5-brane on a spacetime that admits a null Killing vector, including couplings to background 4-form fluxes and possible twisting of the normal bundle. We give the non-abelian extension of this action and present its supersymmetry transformations. The result is a class of supersymmetric non-Lorentzian gauge theories in 4+1 dimensions, which depend on the geometry of the six-dimensional spacetime. These can be used for DLCQ constructions of M5-branes reduced on various manifolds.
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Lambert, N., Orchard, T. Null reductions of the M5-brane. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 37 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2020)037
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