✦ LIBER ✦
A Toy Model of the M5-Brane: Anomalies of Monopole Strings in Five Dimensions
✍ Scribed by Alexey Boyarsky; Jeffrey A. Harvey; Oleg Ruchayskiy
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Volume
- 301
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-4916
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✦ Synopsis
We study a five-dimensional field theory which contains a monopole (string) solution with chiral fermion zero modes. This monostring solution is a close analog of the fivebrane solution of M-theory. The cancellation of normal bundle anomalies parallels that for the M-theory fivebrane; in particular, the presence of a Chern-Simons term in the low-energy effective U(1) gauge theory plays a central role. We comment on the relationship between the microscopic analysis of the world-volume theory and the low-energy analysis and draw some cautionary lessons for M-theory.