Anomaly free effective action for the elementary M5-brane

Abstract

We construct an effective action describing an elementary M5-brane interacting with dynamical eleven-dimensional supergravity, which is free from gravitational anomalies. The current associated to the elementary brane is taken as a distribution valued delta-function on the support of the 5-brane itself. Crucial ingredients of the construction are the consistent inclusion of the dynamics of the chiral two-form on the 5-brane, and the use of an invariant Chern-kernel allowing to introduce a D=11 three-form potential which is well defined on the worldvolume of the 5-brane.

13 pages, LaTex, no figures, clarifying explanations and ref. added

Cited by in corpus (21)

• Robust signatures of solar neutrino oscillation solutions
• BLG-motivated Lagrangian formulation for the chiral two-form gauge field in D=6 and M5-branes
• Five-Branes in Heterotic Brane-World Theories
• Radiation reaction for a massless charged particle
• (De)constructing Intersecting M5-branes
• Various Faces of Type IIA Supergravity
• Q7-branes and their coupling to IIB supergravity
• The effective action of warped M-theory reductions with higher-derivative terms - Part II
• D=4 supergravity dynamically coupled to a massless superparticle in a superfield Lagrangian approach
• Curvature corrections to KPV: Do we need deep throats?
• The global anomalies of (2,0) superconformal field theories in six dimensions
• Quantization of the Chern-Simons Coupling Constant
• SUSY vs E8 Gauge Theory in 11 Dimensions
• Chern-kernels and anomaly cancellation in M-theory
• Intersecting Branes, Defect Conformal Field Theories and Tensionless Strings
• NS5-branes in IIA supergravity and gravitational anomalies
• Intersecting M2- and M5-branes
• Dirac branes for Dirichlet branes: Supergravity actions
• The Sigma-Model Representation for the Duality-Symmetric D=11 Supergravity
• Intersecting D-branes, Chern-kernels and the inflow mechanism
• M Theory, Type IIA Superstrings, and Elliptic Cohomology