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M2-brane Flows and the Chern-Simons Level
Chethan Krishnan, Carlo Maccaferri, Harvendra Singh
The Chern-Simons level k of ABJM gauge theory captures the orbifolding in the dual geometry. This suggests that if we move the membranes away from the tip of the orbifold to a smoo…
Membranes, Strings and Integrability
Chethan Krishnan, Carlo Maccaferri
In the first half of this note, after briefly motivating and reviewing membrane field theories, we consider their BPS funnel solutions. We discuss some aspects of embedding M-theor…
Membranes on Calibrations
Chethan Krishnan, Carlo Maccaferri
M2-branes can blow up into BPS funnels that end on calibrated intersections of M5-branes. In this quick note, we make the observation that the constraints required for the consiste…
Ghost story. I. Wedge states in the oscillator formalism
L. Bonora, C. Maccaferri, R. J. Scherer Santos +1
This paper is primarily devoted to the ghost wedge states in string field theory formulated with the oscillator formalism. Our aim is to prove, using such formalism, that the wedge…
Puffed Noncommutative Nonabelian Vortices
Nazim Bouatta, Jarah Evslin, Carlo Maccaferri
We present new solutions of noncommutative gauge theories in which coincident unstable vortices expand into unstable circular shells. As the theories are noncommutative, the naive…
Towards open-closed string duality: Closed Strings as Open String Fields
L. Bonora, N. Bouatta, C. Maccaferri
We establish a translation dictionary between open and closed strings, starting from open string field theory. Under this correspondence, (off-shell) level-matched closed string st…