AdS\(_7\)/CFT\(_6\) correspondence and matrix models of M5-branes (Q1817959)

The large \(N\) limit of matrix models of M5-branes, or six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theories is studied by making combined use of the M(atrix) and Maldacena conjectures. Since these matrix models are conjectured to describe, not quantum gravities, but local quantum field theories, they are expected to be simpler than the matrix model of M-theory for testing the M(atrix) conjecture (e.g. covariance etc.). Thus they may be helpful for the better understanding of the matrix model of M-theory. A brief review of matrix models of M5-branes, or six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theories near-horizon geometry of ``boosted'' M5-branes, which is the M-theory counterpart of the near-horizon geometry of D0 + D4 bound states, is given. A certain effective action of a particle is calculated in two ways; one way from `matrix models' and the other way from `the discrete light-cone quantization (or DLCQ) of M-theory', and their agreement is confirmed. A relation between the near-horizon limit and the Seiberg-Sen limit in the case of the DLCQ of M5-branes is studied in detail. It is clarified an eleven-dimensional origin of the generalized conformal symmetry by considering an alternative representation. The two-point functions of the DLCQ of (2,0) superconformal theories by applying the AdS/CFT correspondence is calculated.