Heterotic M2-branes

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.08.021zbMATH Open1364.81207arXiv1507.07931OpenAlexW1922348376MaRDI QIDQ2396544FDOQ2396544

N. D. Lambert

Publication date: 8 June 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct the action for N M2-branes on $S^1/Z_2$. The resulting theory has a gauge anomaly but this can be cancelled if the two fixed point planes each support 8 chiral Fermions in the fundamental of U(N). Taking the low energy limit leads to the worldsheet theory of N free heterotic strings whose quantization induces an $E_8$ spacetime gauge symmetry on each fixed point plane. Thus this paper presents a non-abelian worldvolume analogue of the classic Horava-Witten analysis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07931

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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• Heterotic and type I strings from twisted supermembranes
• M2-branes on a constant flux background
• Mass-deformed M2 branes in Stenzel space
• The M2-brane solution of heterotic M-theory with the Gauss-Bonnet \(R^2\) terms
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• The M-theory five-brane and the heterotic string
• The \(\text{SO}(32)\) heterotic and type IIB membranes

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