Weyl Anomaly and Vacuum Magnetization Current of M5-brane in Background Flux

Abstract

It was recently discovered that for a boundary system in the presence of a background magnetic field, the quantum fluctuation of the vacuum would create a non-uniform magnetization density for the vacuum and a magnetization current is induced in the vacuum. It was also shown that this magnetic Casimir effect of the vacuum is closely related to another quantum effect of the vacuum, the Weyl anomaly. Furthermore, the phenomena can be understood in terms of the holography of the boundary system. In this article, we review the derivation of this phenomena from QFT as well as the derivation of it using AdS/BCFT. We then generalize this four dimensional effect to six-dimensions. We use the AdS/BCFT holography to show that in the presence of a 3-form magnetic field strength $H$, a string current is induced in a six-dimensional boundary conformal field theory. This allows us to determine the gauge field contribution to the Weyl anomaly in six-dimensional conformal field theory in a $H$-flux background. For the (2,0) superconformal field theory of $N$ M5-branes, the current has a magnitude proportional to $N^3$ for large $N$. This suggests that the degree of freedoms scales as $N^3$ in the (2,0) superconformal theory of $N$ multiple M5-branes. Our result for the Weyl anomaly is a new prediction for the (2,0) theory.

9 pages, Contribution to Proceedings of LMS/EPSRC Durham Symposium Higher Structures in M-Theory, August 2018. v2. references and comments updated

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