Trirefringence and the M5-brane

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2023)171MaRDI QIDQ6134750zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Igor A. Bandos, Kurt Lechner, Dmitri Sorokin, Paul Kingsley Townsend

Publication date 25 July 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11485

zbMATH Keywords

M-theoryfield theories in higher dimensionsbrane dynamics in gauge theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: The Hamiltonian formulation for nonlinear chiral 2-form electrodynamics in six-dimensional Minkowski spacetime is used to show that small-amplitude plane-wave perturbations of a generic uniform constant `magnetic' background exhibit trirefringence: all three independent wave-polarisations have distinct dispersion relations. While two coincide for Lorentz invariant theories, all three coincide uniquely for the chiral 2-form theory on the worldvolume of the M5-brane of M-theory. We argue that this is because, in this M-theory context, the waves propagate in a planar M5-M2-M2 bound-state preserving 16 supersymmetries. We also show how our results imply analogous results for nonlinear electrodynamics in a Minkowski spacetime of five and four dimensions.

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