M5-brane in the superspace approach

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.106.026010arXiv2206.06388MaRDI QIDQ6401949FDOQ6401949

Authors: L. Andrianopoli, C. A. Cremonini, Riccardo D'Auria, Pietro Antonio Grassi, R. Matrecano, R. Noris, Lucrezia Ravera, Mario Trigiante 

Publication date: 13 June 2022

Abstract: Motivated by Sen's spacetime prescription for the construction of theories with self-dual field strengths, we present a rigid superspace Lagrangian describing noninteracting tensor multiplets living on a stack of M5-branes and containing all the physical constraints on the fields, yielding the on-shell matching of the degrees of freedom. The geometric superspace approach adopted here offers a natural realization of superdiffeomorphisms and is particularly well suited for the coupling to supergravity. However, within this formulation the (anti-)self-duality property of the 3-form field strengths is lost when the superspace Lagrangian is trivially restricted to spacetime. We propose two main paths to address this issue: a first-order superspace extension of Sen's spacetime results, which, once trivially restricted to spacetime, yields all the dynamical equations including the (anti-)self-duality constraint on the 3-form field strengths, and a possible way to obtain a full superspace description of the theory, based on integral forms.

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