Trirefringence and the M5-brane
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Publication:6134750
DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2023)171arXiv2303.11485MaRDI QIDQ6134750FDOQ6134750
Igor A. Bandos, Paul Kingsley Townsend, Kurt Lechner, Dmitri Sorokin
Publication date: 25 July 2023
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
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.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11485
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