Quiver Chern-Simons theories, D3-branes, and Lorentzian Lie 3-algebras

DOI10.1143/PTP.123.449zbMATH Open1189.81179arXiv0912.1613OpenAlexW3106098709MaRDI QIDQ3566530FDOQ3566530

Authors: Yoshinori Honma, Sen Zhang 

Publication date: 8 June 2010

Published in: Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson (BLG) theory with two pairs of negative norm generators is derived from the scaling limit of an orbifolded Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory. The BLG theory with many Lorentzian pairs is known to be reduced to the Dp-brane theory via Higgs mechanism, so our scaling procedure can be used to derive Dp-branes directly from M2-branes in the field theory language. In this paper, we focus on the D3-brane case and investigate the scaling limits of various quiver Chern-Simons theories obtained from different orbifolding actions. Remarkably, in the case of N=2 quiver CS theories, the resulting D3-brane action covers a larger region in the parameter space of the complex structure moduli than the N=4 quiver CS theories. We also investigate how the SL(2,Z) duality transformation is realized in the resultant D3-brane theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1613

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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