On W-algebras and the symmetries of defects of 6d N = ( 2,0 ) theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2011)043MaRDI QIDQ475993zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yuji Tachikawa

Publication date 27 November 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0076

zbMATH Keywords

M-theorybrane dynamics in gauge theoriesconformal and W symmetrysupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) 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) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We consider 6d N=(2,0) theory on N M5-branes, together with a 4d defect labeled by a Young diagram Y specifying its global symmetry G_Y. A recent conjecture states that a compactification of this system leads to a 2d theory with W-algebra symmetry depending on Y. We provide a check of the conjecture by reproducing the level of the current subalgebra hat{G}_Y of this W-algebra from the property of the 4d defect.

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