Anomaly matching and a Hopf-Wess-Zumino term in six-dimensional, \(\mathcal N=(2,0)\) field theories

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00148-6zbMATH Open0984.81145arXivhep-th/0001205OpenAlexW3121961335WikidataQ126759126 ScholiaQ126759126MaRDI QIDQ5934915

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Publication date: 14 May 2001

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Abstract: We point out that the low energy theory of 6d, N=(2,0) field theories, when away from the origin of the moduli space of vacua, necessarily includes a new kind of Wess-Zumino term. The form of this term is related to the Hopf invariant associated with pi_7 (S^4). The coefficient of the Wess-Zumino term is fixed by an anomaly matching relation for a global flavor symmetry. For example, in the context of a single M5 brane probe in the background of N distant M5 branes, the probe must have the Hopf-WZ term with coefficient proportional to N(N+1). Various related checks and observations are made. We also point out that there are skyrmionic strings, and propose that they are the W-boson strings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0001205

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