Orbifolding the Membrane Action

Abstract

We study a simple class of orbifolds of the N=6 Chern-Simons Matter theory proposed by Aharony, Bergman, Jafferis and Maldacena. They are considered as a world volume theory of membranes probing C^4/ (Z_k x Z_n) and include a new membrane theory with N=4 supersymmetries. We find that the moduli spaces of them are consistent with the fact that they probe C^4/ (Z_k x Z_n).

32 pages, 3 figures; v2: major corrections on the analyses of the moduli spaces; v3: explanations added, references added, minor corrections

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