Multiple M5-branes, string 2-connections, and 7d nonabelian Chern-Simons theory

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2014.V18.N2.A1zbMath1322.81066arXiv1201.5277OpenAlexW2963775052MaRDI QIDQ485852

Domenico Fiorenza, Urs Schreiber, Hisham Sati

Publication date: 14 January 2015

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5277

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21)

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