A class of 6D conformal field theories: relation to 4D superconformal Yang-Mills theories?

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.85.5280zbMATH Open1369.81087arXivhep-th/0006231WikidataQ73340484 ScholiaQ73340484MaRDI QIDQ5350262FDOQ5350262

Authors: Måns Henningson 

Publication date: 28 August 2017

Published in: Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a class of six-dimensional conformal field theories that have some properties in common with and possibly are related to a subsector of the tensionless string theories. The latter theories can for example give rise to four-dimensional $N=4$ superconformal Yang-Mills theories upon compactification on a two-torus. Just like the tensionless string theories, our theories have an $ADE$-classification, but no other discrete or continuous parameters. The Hilbert space carries an irreducible representation of the same Heisenberg group that appears in the tensionless string theories, and the `Wilson surface' observables obey the same superselection rules. When compactified on a two-torus, they have the same behaviour under $S$-duality as super Yang-Mills theory. Our theories are natural generalizations of the two-form with self-dual field strength that is part of the world-volume theory of a single five-brane in $M$-theory, and the $A_{N-1}$ theory can in fact be seen as arising from $N$ non-interacting chiral two-forms by factoring out the collective `center of mass' degrees of freedom.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0006231

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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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