Abstract
We investigate the worldvolume theory that describes coincident M2-branes ending on an M5-brane. We argue that the fields that describe the transverse spacetime coordinates take values in a nonassociative algebra. We postulate a set of supersymmetry transformations and find that they close into a novel gauge symmetry. We propose a three-dimensional supersymmetric action to describe the truncation of the full theory to the scalar and spinor fields, and show how a Basu-Harvey fuzzy funnel arises as the Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield solution to this theory.
- Received 21 November 2006
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.045020
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