Heterotic M2-branes

Abstract

We construct the action for N M2-branes on $S^1/Z_2$. The resulting theory has a gauge anomaly but this can be cancelled if the two fixed point planes each support 8 chiral Fermions in the fundamental of U(N). Taking the low energy limit leads to the worldsheet theory of N free heterotic strings whose quantization induces an $E_8$ spacetime gauge symmetry on each fixed point plane. Thus this paper presents a non-abelian worldvolume analogue of the classic Horava-Witten analysis.

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• Gauge and Supersymmetry Invariance of N=2 Boundary Chern-Simons Theory