Five-branes And $M$-Theory On An Orbifold

Abstract

We relate Type IIB superstrings compactified to six dimensions on K3 to an eleven-dimensional theory compactified on $({\mathbf{S}}^1{)}^5/{\mathbf{Z}}_2$. Eleven-dimensional five-branes enter the story in an interesting way.

18 pages, harvmac. Error concerning Stieffel-Whitney classes has been corrected

Cited by in corpus (168)

• Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity on a Manifold with Boundary
• Strong Coupling Expansion Of Calabi-Yau Compactification
• Massless Higher Spins and Holography
• Matrix Description of M-theory on $T^5$ and $T^5/Z_2$
• Constraints on Low-Dimensional String Compactifications
• Branes and N=1 Duality in String Theory
• Calabi-Yau fourfolds for M- and F-Theory compactifications
• Geometric Constructions of Nongeometric String Theories
• Matrix Description of M-theory on $T^4$ and $T^5$
• R^4 Couplings in M and Type II Theories
• Evidence for Heterotic/Heterotic Duality
• Superstring Scattering from D-Branes
• Black Holes and Solitons in String Theory
• Nilpotent orbits and codimension-two defects of 6d N=(2,0) theories
• Lectures on Superstring and M Theory Dualities
• Strings on Orientifolds
• Notes on Theories with 16 Supercharges
• M 5-brane and superconformal (0,2) tensor multiplet in 6 dimensions
• BPS Spectrum of the Five-Brane and Black Hole Entropy
• $\overline{D3}$ and dS
• Matrix Theory
• Anomalies, Renormalization Group Flows, and the a-Theorem in Six-Dimensional (1,0) Theories
• Consistency Conditions for Branes at Orbifold Singularities
• Gravitational Couplings and $Z_2$ Orientifolds
• BPS Quantization of the Five-Brane
• M2-branes on M-folds
• Black Holes, Qubits and Octonions
• Cobordism Conjecture, Anomalies, and the String Lamppost Principle
• M-theory and Type IIA Flux Compactifications
• Six-Dimensional Tensionless Strings In The Large N Limit
• The Ten-dimensional Effective Action of Strongly Coupled Heterotic String Theory
• Brane Surgery
• The M-Algebra
• M Theory on AdS_p x S^{11-p} and Superconformal Field Theories
• Anomaly polynomial of E-string theories
• Three-point Green function of the stress-energy tensor in the AdS/CFT correspondence
• A Non-Abelian Self-Dual Gauge Theory in 5+1 Dimensions
• M(atrix) Theory on an Orbifold and Twisted Membrane
• Geometric Transitions, Flops and Non-Kahler Manifolds: II
• Orbifold and Orientifold Compactifications of F-Theory and M-Theory to Six and Four Dimensions
• Correlation Functions of Operators and Wilson Surfaces in the d=6, (0,2) Theory in the Large N Limit
• An index for the Dirac operator on D3 branes with background fluxes
• Codimension-two defects and Argyres-Douglas theories from outer-automorphism twist in 6d $(2,0)$ theories
• A Picture of D-branes at Strong Coupling
• Vacua of M-theory and N=2 strings
• Four Dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM and the Swampland
• M5-branes and Wilson Surfaces
• Invariants for minimal conformal supergravity in six dimensions
• Anomaly of (2,0) Theories
• Minisuperspace quantum cosmology in $f(Q)$ gravity
• Couplings of self-dual tensor multiplet in six dimensions
• T-branes, Anomalies and Moduli Spaces in 6D SCFTs
• String theory dualities from M theory
• Non-Abelian Tensor Towers and (2,0) Superconformal Theories
• The Eleven-Dimensional Five-Brane
• Consistency Conditions for Fivebrane in M Theory on R^5/Z_2 Orbifold
• Multiple Realisations of N=1 Vacua in Six Dimensions
• Equivariant Cohomotopy implies orientifold tadpole cancellation
• Multiple Self-Dual Strings on M5-Branes
• F Theory Orientifolds, M Theory Orientifolds, and Twisted Strings
• S-Duality for Linearized Gravity
• Heterotic M-Theory Cosmology in Four and Five Dimensions
• Coupling of branes and normalization of effective actions in string/M-theory
• The twelve dimensional super (2+2)-brane
• Supersymmetric Renyi Entropy and Anomalies in Six-Dimensional (1,0) Superconformal Theories
• Branes and Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking
• Towards an M5-Brane Model I: A 6d Superconformal Field Theory
• On Heterotic Orbifolds, M Theory and Type I' Brane Engineering
• Intersecting Orbifold Planes and Local Anomaly Cancellation in M-Theory
• D-branes in Orbifold Singularities and Equivariant K-Theory
• Conifold Transitions and Five-Brane Condensation in M-Theory on Spin(7) Manifolds
• On The Universality Class Of Little String Theories
• Duality in String Theory
• Consistency conditions and trace anomalies in six dimensions
• Orientifolds and the Refined Topological String
• Open Supermembranes Coupled to M-Theory Five-Branes
• Dynamical Topology Change in M Theory
• N=1 Heterotic/M-theory Duality and Joyce Manifolds
• Bubbling Orientifolds
• Matrix Regularization of an Open Supermembrane ---towards M-theory five-branes via open supermembranes ---
• Anomaly free effective action for the elementary M5-brane
• Toda Theory From Six Dimensions
• New N=1 dualities from orientifold transitions - Part II: String Theory
• Local Anomaly Cancellation, M-Theory Orbifolds and Phase-Transitions
• Exact Solutions in Higher-Dimensional Lovelock and $Ad{S}_5$ Chern-Simons Gravity
• Matroid Theory and Chern-Simons
• A Breathing Mode for Warped Compactifications
• M(embrane) theory on $T^9$
• Chern-Simons theory from M5-branes and calibrated M2-branes
• On Tensionless Strings in $3+1$ Dimensions
• Anomaly Cancellation in Seven-Dimensional Supergravity with a Boundary
• Hierarchy of RG flows in 6d $(1,0)$ orbi-instantons
• Unification of String Dualities
• String Dualities from Matrix Theory
• Real ADE-equivariant (co)homotopy and Super M-branes
• Dirichlet Joyce Manifolds, Discrete Torsion and Duality
• Open supermembranes in eleven dimensions
• Operator Product Expansion of Wilson surfaces from M5-branes
• M-Theory on S^1/Z_2 : New Facts from a Careful Analysis
• Brane Descent Relations in K-theory
• Supersymmetric Renyi Entropy and Weyl Anomalies in Six-Dimensional (2,0) Theories
• Structure of Anomalies of 4d SCFTs from M5-branes, and Anomaly Inflow
• Higher-dimensional quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder model
• Differential cohomotopy versus differential cohomology for M-theory and differential lifts of Postnikov towers
• Renyi Entropy of Free (2,0) Tensor Multiplet and its Supersymmetric Counterpart
• M-Theory and Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
• M5-brane in the superspace approach
• AdS${}_8$ Solutions in Type II Supergravity
• M(atrix) Theory on T5/Z2 Orbifold and Five-Branes
• An M-Theory Perspective on Heterotic K3 Orbifold Compactifications
• Large Gauge Transformations in M-theory
• BPS String Webs in the 6-dim (2,0) Theories
• de Sitter Minima from M theory and String theory
• Conceptual Analysis of Black Hole Entropy in String Theory
• Five-Brane Webs and Highest Weight Representations
• (0,2) Noncritical Strings in Six Dimensions
• Five-Brane Thresholds and Membrane Instantons in Four-Dimensional Heterotic M-Theory
• Wilson-Polyakov surfaces and M-theory branes
• E10 Orbifolds
• A note on T^5/Z_2 compactification of the M-theory matrix model
• Hurwitz theorem and parallelizable spheres from tensor analysis
• SUSY's Ladder: Reframing Sequestering at Large Volume
• SO(2N) (0,2) SCFT and M Theory on $Ad{S}_7\times {RP}^4$
• Anomaly cancellation in K3 orientifolds
• Considerations on Super Poincare Algebras and their Extensions to Simple Superalgebras
• O-folds: Orientifolds and Orbifolds in Exceptional Field Theory
• Closed tachyon solitons in type II string theory
• K-Models and Type IIB Superstring Backgrounds
• Super-Yang-Mills theories on S4 x R
• A note on M(atrix) theory in seven dimensions with eight supercharges
• Higher Loop Effects in M(atrix) Orbifolds
• Heterotic M(atrix) theory at generic points in Narain moduli space
• Ghost Number Cohomologies and M-theory Quantum States
• Ironing out the crease
• Batalin-Vilkovisky gauge-fixing of a chiral two-form in six dimensions
• Emergence and Correspondence for String Theory Black Holes
• 6d Dual Conformal Symmetry and Minimal Volumes in AdS
• Global anomalies in M-theory
• (Fractional) Intersection Numbers, Tadpoles and Anomalies
• Hidden Borcherds symmetries in Z_n orbifolds of M-theory and magnetized D-branes in type 0' orientifolds
• Anomaly cancellation in M-theory on orbifolds
• Non-BPS D-brane Solutions in Six Dimensional Orbifolds
• A "Periodic Table" for Supersymmetric M-Theory Compactifications
• Classical Interactions for Tensionless Strings
• Gravitational couplings of orientifold planes
• Duality in Matrix Theory and Three Dimensional Mirror Symmetry
• Dirac branes for Dirichlet branes: Supergravity actions
• Orientifolds of Matrix theory and Noncommutative Geometry
• M-Theory on Orientifolds of $K_3\times S^1$
• Twisted Sectors and Chern-Simons Terms in M-Theory Orbifolds
• Anatomy of a Duality
• Massless chiral fields in six dimensions
• Orbifolds of M-Theory and Type II String Theories in Two Dimensions
• Orientifold and Type II Dual Pairs
• Stability of the quantum supermembrane in a manifold with boundary
• Morse-Bott inequalities, Topology Change and Cobordisms to Nothing
• String Dualities from Matrix Theory: A Summary
• Probing Type I' String Theory Using D0 and D4-Branes
• Anomalies and Supersymmetry
• Matrix Description of Heterotic Theory on K3
• Graviton scattering in an M-orientifold background
• Brane Solutions in Time Dependent Backgrounds in D = 11 Supergravity and in Type II String Theories
• Aspects of Confinement and Screening in M theory
• Global Spinors and Orientable Five-Branes
• Scattering in D=5 super Yang-Mills theory and the relation to (2,0) theory
• M-history without the M
• The Exchange of Orientifold Two-Planes in M-theory
• Chern-Simons Branes with enhanced gauge invariance