Non-linear theory for multiple M2 branes

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/030zbMATH Open1245.81181arXiv0808.2473OpenAlexW1965115189MaRDI QIDQ440486FDOQ440486

Authors: Roberto Iengo, J. G. Russo 

Publication date: 18 August 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a manifestly SO(8) invariant non-linear Lagrangian for describing the non-abelian dynamics of the bosonic degrees of freedom of N coinciding M2 branes in flat spacetime. The theory exhibits a gauge symmetry structure of the BF type (semidirect product of SU(N) and translations) and at low energies it reduces exactly to the bosonic part of the Lorentzian Bagger-Lambert Lagrangian for group SU(N). There are eight scalar fields satisfying a free-scalar equation. When one of them takes a large expectation value, the non-linear Lagrangian gets simplified and the theory can be connected to the non-abelian Lagrangian describing the dynamics of N coinciding D2 branes. As an application, we show that the BPS fuzzy funnel solution describing M2 branes ending into a single M5 brane is an exact solution of the non-linear system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2473

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zbMATH Keywords

multiple M2 branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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