The ABJM model is a higher gauge theory

DOI10.1142/S0219887814500753zbMath1303.81178arXiv1311.1997OpenAlexW1973939427MaRDI QIDQ2931907

Christian Sämann, Sam Palmer

Publication date: 28 November 2014

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1997

zbMATH Keywords

M-theoryhigher Gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21)

Related Items (8)

Higher-form symmetries and 3-group in axion electrodynamics ⋮ Algebraic formulation of higher gauge theory ⋮ Higher Structures, Self‐Dual Strings and 6d Superconformal Field Theories ⋮ Towards an M5-brane model I: A 6d superconformal field theory ⋮ Dynamics of a lattice 2-group gauge theory model ⋮ The non-abelian self-dual string ⋮ Non-topological vortex configurations in the ABJM model ⋮ Hermitian \((\varepsilon, \delta)\)-Freudenthal-Kantor triple systems and certain applications of \(*\)-generalized Jordan triple systems to field theory

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